Name:   copperline - Subject:   You shoulda been more careful...... Date:   10/12/2016 12:27:54 PM

…when you supported Donald Trump for the Presidency.   Now, candid recordings of his lewd comments are on display for our children to see and the kids are left to wonder if this kind of behavior is acceptable, even desirable if you are rich, famous and running for the most esteemed office in the land.

You can’t explain this away unless you completely excuse him.. which many of his supporters here are doing.   And those who believe it was wrong, but still vow to support him anyway… are engaging in exactly that sort of double-think we were talking about weeks ago.  

Trump is lewd & depraved but Trump is an honorable man who we should elect to the Presidency.

Now Trump stoops to his final act.   Let’s be clear: this is what happens when a Narcissist is confronted with intense & effective public humiliation.  He explodes & begins to try to destroy everyone around him… including both his allies and enemies.   With mass defections from his campaign, and donors asking for their contributions back, Trump is going on a scorched earth campaign.   He may or may not have calculated that he will lose this election yet, but he clearly intends to gin up enough hysteria among his faithful to take them with him on the next leg of his journey.   He is getting dangerously close to inciting a violent reaction to the election process.

The only way a guy like Trump can accept defeat is to say he was robbed, and he will do anything to divert attention from his own actions that created his problem.   He is calling for his opponent to be put in jail, counter to all notions of constitutional justice & presidential decorum.    This is the stuff of 3^rd world tin pot dictators!   He is claiming the election is rigged, and his supporters are being encouraged therefor to deny the legitimacy of the voting outcome.   (Well, as one Trump supporter put it… only if Trump wins will the election will be proven to NOT be rigged).    Playing to the rampant paranoia of his followers who believe the Democrats are going to take all their guns away, intend to flood the nation with Muslim terrorists or invite Hispanic rapists into our homes…..   He is stoking the deepest notes of hatred he can think of…. Because it pleases him to see how people react to his words.    In the aftermath of all this humiliation, he is going to try to increase the amount of hostility from his supporters because he sees this as evidence that he is loved, respected, feared & powerful.

It certainly looks like when all is said & done, Donald will take this defeat &  all his supporters into a new tent… creating a new political movement for Authoritarians and completing the fracture of the conservative movement, the evangelical rightwing, and the traditional GOP.

In years to come, the Democrats will not take credit for dismantling the GOP.   Trump did that, and the GOP helped him.