[DoughtyOne]

Well, there hasn’t been anything like it on the national stage. That’s for sure.

I do believe the Schwarzenegger experience in California came close. To me it was much more a “personality” issue than Trump is though.

The moment Schwarzenegger announced on Leno, I just sat there on my couch and laughed. It was all over and I knew it.

I don’t see Trump as the same thing, because I think a lot of folks were dismissive of him. It was only after he started campaigning that they began to see in him a man that they could support.

In my own case, I was asked by a fellow FReeper several months before Trump announced if I could support him. I told them no. They suggested I should listen to his thoughts, and I said it probably wouldn’t matter. I explained that some people probably wouldn’t get my support no matter what they proposed.

And then Trump announced. I listened to what he had to say. I haven’t stopped, and I like what I hear.

I have reversed myself on Trump.

He won me over. Schwarzenegger was almost a cult following.

I voted for the guy, but I did so in opposition to Davis and Bustamante. One was a terrible governor and one was a brown separatist, who wanted to be governor.

Bustamante had been an active member of a group that advocated for the realization of Aztlan, the reconquista of the West. When asked to disavow his membership, he refused to. That should make it clear what sort he was.

If Trump is elected, it will be on the merit of his policies.

I’m not convinced that’s how Schwarzenegger was elected.

These two election cycles were/are anomalies, to be sure.

Interesting times...

With Trump we are either going to see a revival, or the waning days of a great republic.

With regard to the later, it’s what we have been witnessing long before this election.

I hope that’s not what it comes to. One way or another, with or without Trump, that’s what we are coming to.

So IMO, Trump can save us, or strike that final blow to our nation’s back.

[stephenjohnbanker]

“With Trump we are either going to see a revival, or the waning days of a great republic.

With regard to the later, it’s what we have been witnessing long before this election.

I hope that’s not what it comes to. One way or another, with or without Trump, that’s what we are coming to.

So IMO, Trump can save us, or strike that final blow to our nation’s back.”

The way I see it word for word.

[wastedyears]

But the prize for overheated rhetoric goes to Hillary Clinton, who said Trump wants to "literally pull people out of their homes and their workplaces, round them up, put them, I don't know, in buses, boxcars, in order to take them across our border."

I don't really care how they're kicked out, I just want them kicked out. If we have to send them out using military transport planes and old zipline parachutes, so be it. As long as they're out of the country.