Posted on 02/11/2016 5:12:35 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Trump won in dominant fashion and Cruz met expectations as Rubio fell completely apart. This is scary stuff.
I've been writing about the Donald Trump phenomenon several times a week for seven months now. As his candidacy evolved from a bizarre spectacle to a serious campaign, it's become clear that this is a pivotal moment in American politics. It's not just that we have a shocking demagogue or a profane performer topping the polls in the Republican presidential race. It's the alarming notion that a crude authoritarian white nationalist is appealing to a very large section of the American people. Even worse is the realization that there is a path for him to actually win the presidency.
Last night he won the New Hampshire primary and he won decisively. His effect on the GOP electorate is already profound:
Meet the Press
NH EXIT POLL: 66% of GOP primary voters support banning Muslims from entering the U.S. #Decision2016
Only 40 percent of New Hampshire Republicans support deporting millions of Latinos, so that's what passes for good news in all this. They didn't ask about summary execution or torture or killing terrorist suspects' families, but it stands to reason that at least the 35 percent who voted for Trump are for it. Those aren't the kind of issues people easily overlook when they vote for someone....
(Excerpt) Read more at salon.com ...
If it’s Digby, it’s Dingbat.
this is one seriously fractured country.
LOL. Right. We would be way ahead if we only had a felon and an over-the-hill Marxist/Communist fighting it out in the race for the GOP nomination.
You have to worry about us. Because payback's coming.
DISLIKED
Alumni, roommates, law clerks, former staffers in the George W. Bush campaign and White House (and the president himself), members of Congress and others who have known Cruz ââ¬â lots and lots of people ââ¬â consider him socially awkward, nasty, dishonest
httpest, a blatant apple-polisher and all-around creepy guy. You can write off a few of these critics as jealous of his success, or liberal antagonists, but all of them? There is something badly amiss here. Cruz, who so obviously lacks emotional intelligence, cannot recognize it, but those closest to him surely must see that something is awry...
NO SHOW CRUZ
Ted Cruz the senator: Heard but not seen
The Texas Republican seriously lags most of his colleagues in attending hearings and casting votes.
Ted Cruz came to Washington two-and-a-half years ago pledging to be the anti-senator. But he’s been more like the no-show senator.
The Texas Republican seriously lags most of his colleagues in attending hearings and casting votes in what has been a Senate career long on rhetoric and short on Senate business.
He’s skipped the vast majority of Armed Services Committee hearings, is below-average in attendance on his other major committees and ranks 97th during the first three months of this year in showing up for roll call votes on the Senate floor. ... -Read more: Ted Cruz the senator: Heard but not seen
And then there’s this- CRUZ WANTS TO CUT SOCIAL SECURITY
Silly you. Hill & Bern are centrist, mainstream, everyday normal Americans who love apple pie, Mom, and Uncle Sam.
If there had to be an order:
(1) illegal Muslims have to go- a no brained.
(2) all other illegals- because, well, they’re illegal!
(3) legal muslim’s - hey guys, they’re okay, they don’t want to kill us. They just want to impose their own laws and upend the Constitution.....
Uh, doesn’t DC want to do this as well?
Yet, I digress.......
Mr. Trump is not a phenomenon. Mr. Trump is the next president of the United States.
Show some respect.
Brained=Brainer
I hate IPhones sometimes
This from Salon .... pimping the Progressive battle between Stalin and Trotsky!
Haha. Welcome to my world of horror when Obama was re.elected.
Sweat, have nightmares, and by all means keep whining so I can laugh at you.
Target/flak theorem in action...
Thank you.
‘welcome.
Long live Hillary( in prison)!
Long live Bernie (in North Korea)!
Digby is the pseudonym of liberal political blogger Heather Parton from Santa Monica, California who founded the blog Hullabaloo. She has been called one of the "leading and most admired commentators" of the progressive blogosphere.
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