“Trump has plenty of time to implode by saying a bunch of stupid stuff, or his act could get old and the media might stop giving him 100 times the airtime of any of his opponents, some scandal could come to light, etc.”
So you’re hoping that we loose yet another election I take it. If you really think ANY of the rest of them have any chance at all, show us all how they make it through the primary and beat HItlary ( or any of the other RATs for that matter).
Yeah, I do. I think several of them have a chance if they could get any airtime. Right now it is the Trump realityTV show sucking up all the oxygen. I think Cruz, Walker or Rubio could win against the Dem slate of candidates if they ran a good campaign. I think the longer Trump runs the more intense his support is becoming with the anti establishment part of the GOP, but the weaker it will become with the the general electorate. This, in my view, will become more and more evident as we get closer to actual primary voting.
Trump believes there is the old silent majority. I do as well, unfortunately I think it is now a new silent majority on the Democrat side. By the time you add up all the victim groups, urban voters, massive number of people collecting government benefits, etc, you really do get to the 47%+ Romney was talking about.
In a national general election we are going to need someone that can both energize the white vote for a few more % AND not get completely destroyed with minorities. Trump I think has at least a chance of growing the white vote if he doesn’t do anything really dumb, but he is gonna get killed among every minority group despite the silly claims he makes about winning Hispanic and black votes.
Also there is going to be a persistent strain of discontent among ideological conservatives about Trump due to the fact that well, Trump isn’t actually a conservative. I think it would idiotic for ideological conservatives to sit home or endlessly criticize Trump were he to win the nomination, but I think there will be a lot of unhappiness with a populist protectionist winning the nomination among intellectuals on the right.