[inpajamas]

Trump is leading a fanatical mass movement. Think 1930s or 2008 in a different costume. I can tell you now, Trumpaholics will not be persuaded until the crash and burn. That is what happens to fanatical mass movements which ignore reality and embrace an illusion. These people are The True Believer which Eric Hoffer wrote about. They really have no clue where this is taking them but they want rebellion, and for a very good reason, but they are dragging America over a cliff by running blindly after their pied piper. The solution they have chosen will prove to be no less lethal than the problems they seek to address.

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

Sad but true.

[glennaro]

Think about it: If Trump doesn't win, which GOP candidate do you think will pick up enough additional electoral votes -- will swing enough states -- to overcome the results of the last election where, despite his exceptionally poor performance, his clear hatred of most Americans and his clear antipathy toward the Constitution, a sympathizer of America's enemies was re-elected?

As much as I wish it was otherwise (that is, as a conservative, as much as I would like to see Ted Cruz holding Donald Trump's position of strength), I just don't see any way Cruz -- or any other non-Democrat/Socialist candidate -- can pick up sufficient crossover, blue-collar Democrats, independents and, admittedly, enough low-information celebrity star-struck people who will gladly vote for Trump to win this national election.

America cannot take another four years (much less eight years) of anti-Constitutional, European-socialist rule without causing irreparable damage to our Republic.

[P-Marlowe]

Scary.

[dsc]

“Trump is leading a fanatical mass movement. Think 1930s...Trumpaholics...fanatical mass movements...embrace an illusion...The True Believer...They really have no clue...blindly...The solution they have chosen will prove to be no less lethal than the problems they seek to address.”

You know, it’s funny. I see notes of two types on these threads: Notes accusing Trump supporters of behaving badly, and notes like the one to which this responds.

What I don’t see is Trump supporters behaving as badly as they are accused of doing. I think most Trump partisans here have Cruz as their second choice. Why would they be hostile to Cruz partisans?

[Hawthorn]

>> They really have no clue where this is taking them <<

Yes, they forget that a Revolution will inevitably devour its own children.