I’m just a realist. The propaganda machine can be defeated, but Trump is the only person I’ve ever seen do it.
He is successful because he doesn’t care what the media says and is constantly on the attack, but he also has his finger on the pulse of what is a real outrage and a media-manufactured outrage. He picks up an issue that people agree with but sends the media into a meltdown and sits back and watches the show. He is also aided by the fact that the media has spread so many debunked lies about him that even significant charges are dismissed as somewhat or totally untrue.
Roy Moore didn’t have any of those attributes. He’s also a terrible retail politician. GOP politicians can still be successful within the propaganda machine paradigm if they don’t do or say anything that the media can frag you for, and if you do get tripped up on one, you can give an acceptable explanation to get yourself off the hook. Roy Moore certainly couldn’t do either of those things either.
Had either one not happened, Moore would have walked away with it handily. Moore may not have been an awesome candidate, but he was good enough before people meddled with it. Again, he won in 2013. A win is all that is necessary. He had a winning methodology until outsiders threw a monkey wrench into it.
I appreciate your belief that a better candidate could have won this, but I constantly notice when the media attack machine destroys one of our candidates, this is always the claim. "We should have had a better candidate."
The Democrats do not need better candidates, they get by fine with the incompetent sleazeballs they constantly put forth. Why must we have supermen candidates, and they get by with "Jokers and Penguins"?
Well i'll tell ya. The media attack machine doesn't attack them. It only attacks us. Also their party doesn't backstab their slimy candidates, it goes into full tilt support mode.
Bill Clinton is a full fledged F***ing serial rapist, and the entire media/democrat empire denounced anyone who even suggested it.
You say you are a realist, but the constant call for better candidates is unrealistic. The vast majority of people are a little squirrely in one way or another. You just don't get people from central casting, and it's asking too much of the available options to insist on Captain Perfect before you try to win an election.
Stop the media attack machine, and stop the party backstabbing. We have a better chance of controlling those factors than finding those elusive perfect candidates.
Just being real here.