Donald Trump for President?

What does this mean though? I think people including republicans have brought up very fair questions about Trumps plans. Seriously, i hate the rest just as much if not more than him but he honestly hasn't answered anything or personally specified his administrations goals at all.

I'm glad that he is standing up to the establishment or whatever but it would be nice if he decided to answer a question once in a while, last time it was Ron Paul (who i love) didn't get enough media attention now it is Trump is getting too much?

Trump versus Sanders would be the worst election in the past 100 years. Hillary will be just like Obama 2 but she needs to deal with the fiscal problems of the US.

He is not a politician.

Trump is not going to be succesful. He has no clue of how to run a government and he has no political experience. His main policy proposals are:

1 - Import substituion industrialization: what Argentina did in the past 100 years turning from the richest country in the world to a poor LA country.

2 - Xenophobic immigration policies: the US will end up with a labor shortage like Japan.

Trump is essentially what the US needs if it wants to become a third world country.

It's not a toomah.

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Well, with such narrative certainty going on in here, be a shame to see you all be wrong

I'm not american, I don't have american television, I follow the american election via the debates and articles on the internet, but from what I've seen I don't know how you can classify Trump and Sanders in the same category.

One is an intelligent leftist that has been saying what he says for a long time, defends social equality, wants to change the political world with concrete propositions vs Trump (go read my previous message)

Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't see what is horrible with Bernie Sanders.

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Actually I think Bernie Sanders would appeal to all of Hillarys voters and fringe voters moreso than Trump. In a debate, Sanders would destroy Trump. He would run rings around The Donald so bad Bill Clinton would be proud. Hillary has had too much face time with the voters though in comparison to Sanders, which is a shame.

Wrong about what? Most have said they have no idea what Trump wants to do which is fair enough since he avoids all questions; a lot of his supporters even admit this but they try to spin this into Trump being above answering the media's questions. Which by using a big boogieman like the media and telling people to watch his rallies you notice that he only ever throws out vague soundbites like "make america better" or whatever, the rest are just as bad if not worse but Trump is getting by on being the different guy against the establishment when he really isn't at all.

Not convinced of this at all, or any variation of it between the four remaining candidates. Personally i think the debates don't play that big of a part in the elections at all, if they do then i don't think they matter much after super tuesday at least.

He's full of crap.


You wouldn't know it if you listened to Republicans brandish Democrats as leftists and socialists, but just as Trump is outside the Republican Party base, so is Sanders. What are his chances of getting most of his agenda through Congress even if Democrats control both the Senate and the House.? Zero. While the Republican Party has shifted far to the right, the Democratic Party is still left-of-center. He is outside of even the leftist part of that center. Except for a few things, everything he proposes are pipe dreams. He has shown no leadership skills to get any of it through Congress.

He might deligitimize the American Empire (GOOD THING) and he won't get jack done.

Did Trump say anything about foreign policy? But I doubt anyone can change that as long as USA keeps its Great Power status.

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This is understating things a bit. And more importantly, it's not an isolated incident: he responded to Megyn Kelly doing her job by talking about her menstrual cycle. He called Ted Cruz a "p*ssy" and threatened to sue him (Cruz called his bluff). He offered to pay the legal fees of any supporter who hit a protester for him (then said he never did, even though we have him on tape saying it). And worst of all, he openly advocated we target our enemies' families, which is a war crime. I'm not exaggerating or misrepresenting any of this: he literally did and said all of this, sometimes repeatedly.

This is not just a tough-talking guy who occasionally inches over the line, or a plainspoken dude who doesn't care about political correctness. This is a guy who responds to anyone in his way, even indirectly, by mocking, threatening, and insulting them, sometimes by completely making things up (like literally two days ago, when he claimed a critic of his had been "fired" when they hadn't).

Call me crazy, but I think "thin-skinned and quick to threaten people who criticize them" would win a "Describe the Last Person in the World Who Should Have Lots of Power" contest.

Somebody else.

To me this is like saying "I don't like the general manager of my baseball team, so I'm going to blow up the stadium."

The fact that Trump is the only one who you think might "shake things up" doesn't mean he's actually the guy to do it. Heck, he's even talked openly about moderating himself as we get into the general election, which is why you've already seen him reverse himself blatantly on a handful of issues. Voting for a disruptive candidate can be justified if that candidate is at least thinking through what they say and do, but not just for the chaos itself.

Well, for one, they're not really "concrete positions." The numbers really don't add up. And when you look into the examples he uses, it becomes clear why:

He likes to list various Europe countries as examples of socialist paradises, but he always leaves out the other things they had to do to have the social services they do. Some have very light business regulation (he wants much more). Others have higher taxes across the entire populace (he pretends he can pay for everything just by taxing the very rich). He's proposing we guarantee all the benefits of these places without any of the other things they did to make them possible.

I do think he's a principled guy, however. I think he believes what he's saying, however wrong it might be. I can't say that about Trump.


Except he's consistently getting a significantly higher percentage of the Democratic vote than Trump is of the Republican vote.

Trump is a bizarre policy chimera sewing together people from outside the Republican party with some inside it because he's on a different spectrum entirely. Sanders is much, much closer to his party's base, policy-wise. They're just having the age-old argument between what they'd like and what they think they can actually get. And given how much more popular he is with younger voters (something like 4-to-1 over Hillary), it seems moderately likely this is where the Democratic party is going.

Sanders is outside the political base, He was an independent until he decided to run for president. Nobody among the Democrats in Congress is as left as he is. Even Elizabeth Warren is to the right of him. A lot of the votes he is getting is probably because he is the only game in town for voters who don't like Hillary Clinton. The Republican establishment has been in the minority in the Republican race. All the establishment candidates have been shot down except Kasich and he's barely hanging on. Ted Cruz is way, way to the right and that's who the GOP will have to accept if it goes to a brokered convention and picks someone other than Trump. His Senate colleagues except Mike Lee hate him. One of his foreign policy advisors is Frank Gaffney, a complete loony bird and just as bad, if not worse, than Trump in spewing hate.

Again, look at the vote totals: he's gotten 40-50% in the majority of states that have voted so far. He's gotten ~60% or more in almost a third of them. He is, indeed, to the left of the party, but he's apparently not that far left of primary voters.

Trump is a factional candidate drawing heavily from outside the party and benefitting from a split opposition. Sanders is in a straight up horse race and barely losing.

You're making up for it

To me that is an irrational overstatement. To want to revive and advance a lifeless and sluggish American brand is saying you want to blow it up? I disagree completely

Fair enough

What happens if you add up Cruz's total to Trump's?


A lot of voters who don't find mainstream Republicans acceptable. I read that actually Trump's support from outside the party is exaggerated. A lot of it is coming from registered Republicans and independents who lean Republican who usually skip primaries, but vote in the general election.

Sad but Trump reminds me of Morton Downey Jr. the professional rabblerouser. Thank od hes out of the public eye now, what an idiot he was too.

Besides Trump's abrasive and flippant personality...What is it about his policies/stances that makes someone not willing to support him?