On another thread, I used that very same term; “muddy the waters”. I ended that post with, “Damn, this is fun.” and I think you and I are reading from the same page.
I have never seen a campaign like this in my life time (born in 1958) And, well, damn, this IS fun!
Win or lose, Trump has injected a level of “circus” that the rest of Washington DC has simply shied away from. America is better for this...I have regained my optimism for USA.
This is Alexander Hamilton v. Aaron Burr level of entertainment. We can only be better when patriots try to “out-patriot” the challenger.
We are close, I’m slightly less than a year older than you.
I can stomach Trump, he worries the hell out of me in certain ways but I could vote for him without holding my nose.
He has brought to the surface topics that needed to be addressed and for that I give him credit. One the flip side I believe him to be a populist/pragmatist with an empty core lacking conservative ideals.
That really bothers me.