[elhombrelibre]

I feel the greatest problem is his supporters do not care. They don’t care that he constantly contradicts himself. They don’t care that he shows signs of senile dementia. They don’t care that supporting him exposes Republicans as hypocrites because Trump has done nearly everything that Bill Clinton did in his personal life and even bragged about it (save rape). They don’t care that Trump championed liberalism until he was in his mid 60’s to include funding it and ridiculing Republicans. They don’t mind Trump comparing their loyalty to him as if it were to that of cult members with him saying he could shoot someone and not lose their support. (He’s probably right.) They’re loyal to the man, not conservative principles, not the truth, and not to the values they claim they are pure at. They don’t mind his ad hominem attacks. They don’t mind that he won’t release his taxes. They don’t care about anything but their leader.

[Campion]

<trumpbot>You're just jealous because you support Cruzer the Luzer! You're part of the GOPe! We're gonna build a wall! Now let me find a cute animated GIF to make fun of you and raise the level of discourse around here.</trumpbot>

[palmer]

I feel the greatest problem is his supporters do not care. They don’t care that he constantly contradicts himself

I am satisfied that Trump would have some positive effects. He would delay the descent of the US into the Balkanized societies in much of the rest of the world. The barrios of the third world would not migrate and expand here (we already have enough). The European muslim no-go zones will not take root here. English would predominate and with that a cultural dilution would be avoid.

Trump would cut taxes (as would Cruz and Rubio), and get American business to repatriate profits and get the American economy moving. Trump would raise tariffs (Cruz and Rubio would not). That would have a beneficial effect in some areas, not in others.

Trump named two serious SCOTUS candidates. They were trashed here by some but that was specious.

Everything else would be some sort of crap shoot. We just can't predict how he will come down on any issue, and what policies he might choose. We can only hope to get strong leaders in Congress to oppose the stupid stuff.

As for the strong man, fascist innuendo, to some extent America has it coming. I predicted long ago that's how we would end up although I figured ours would be a little more like Pinochet.