The Future President, Donald Trump

I have been moderating forums for over a decade. I know spam and spammers very well. It is usually the case that a newbie who drops a link with the very first post is spamming the site and has no reason to come here other than to try to glom onto our good search engine rankings. Period.

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I have been moderating forums for over a decade. I know spam and spammers very well. It is usually the case that a newbie who drops a link with the very first post is spamming the site and has no reason to come here other than to try to glom onto our good search engine rankings. Period.

I moderate on another forum and this is exactly why all new posters are watched VERY closely for several weeks or until they post twenty or so trouble free posts. We dump a LOT newbies when they jump into a topic armed with questionable links and too strong of opinions against older posters. Its also evidence of having been members who were kicked for uncivil behavior. Hawkeye'd been bounced YEARS ago

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I moderate on another forum and this is exactly why all new posters are watched VERY closely for several weeks or until they post twenty or so trouble free posts. We dump a LOT newbies when they jump into a topic armed with questionable links and too strong of opinions against older posters. Its also evidence of having been members who were kicked for uncivil behavior. Hawkeye'd been bounced YEARS ago

Its also evidence of having been members who were kicked for uncivil behavior ....what an interesting line of gibberish to get to the "Hawkeye needs to go" punchline.

A couple of us are a part of a group in a college English class. Our duty was to pick a topic, do research about it, pick a stance, then to enter a forum and discuss about it. So we were all pretty neutral coming into the topic, and now all of us pretty much agree that Trump should not be our president. I think our posts speak that message and show our evidence. But it was good to look into something and learn the reasons why Donald Trump specifically shouldn't be president.

Stop whinging, you tell me to go all the time.

Many farmers in the country want the immigrants to keep coming wether legal or illegal so they can have cheap farm labor. After the election you will see most of the republicans back off of this political bull.

Drop it Frank. I want Trump to run in the worst way. He will guarantee a democratic president no matter who they run.

DAVID BROOKS: They can’t nominate this guy. Major parties do not nominate people like Carson and Trump. These guys are so incompetent. Whenever the actual subject is running the country, they just disappear from the debates.

And I just have to feel — I have had no evidence for this. And I have said this for six months now, that they’re about to collapse.

JUDY WOODRUFF: Not that we’re keeping track. Not that we’re keeping track.

DAVID BROOKS: The emerald path will get to Oz, the curtain will come down, and Marco Rubio will emerge triumphant.

(LAUGHTER)

JUDY WOODRUFF: We have heard you mention this before.

But what about…

DAVID BROOKS: I think it will — I do think it will be Cruz and Rubio at the end of the day. I think Cruz will inherit the — and Republicans are really angry.

They think the country is going down the tubes. And so they have to express that somehow. They are expressing it now. And I think — but those voters will eventually wind up with Cruz, and then the mainstream voters will wind up with somebody like Rubio or Kasich or who knows.

But I just can’t imagine. A major American party doesn’t nominate Donald Trump. I just can’t believe it. I will have to go to Canada after that.

(LAUGHTER)

JUDY WOODRUFF: But what about Mark’s point about — you get to react. But what about Mark’s point about — some of the candidates were asked questions, and then it turns out later what they said didn’t hold out? So, what about…

DAVID BROOKS: Yes. There was the Carson moment with the dietary supplement thing.

They — I think the questioners were not prepared for the brazenness of the lies. Now, I don’t totally blame Donald Trump for not knowing what’s on his Web page. I can’t imagine he ever read his Web page. He’s not into that sort of stuff.

But there was a certain brazenness to it. And that’s been true of this year, that you — somehow, there is no political price.

I think that’s what Donald Trump — that is why he is a bit of a game-changer, because he has said eight million things that are normally disqualifying, but because the electorate is so angry, at least that part of the electorate, they say, well, you know, he says all this crazy stuff, but we need somebody who can really shake things up. So they are willing to tolerate it.

I still don’t think they are going to tolerate it at the end of the day. That’s my religion right now

Turning to the 2016 presidential nomination campaigns, we can clearly see the effects of rising voter anger in both parties. Donald Trump’s surge in the polls among Republican primary voters is likely due to his ability to give voice to frustration and anger among a large segment of the GOP base at the failure of Republicans in Congress to reverse the policies of the Obama administration over the past six and a half years. Likewise, Bernie Sanders’ success in closing the gap between himself and Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton is probably attributable to his ability to tap into liberal anger over the failure of President Obama and congressional Democrats to overcome Republican opposition to policies such as raising the minimum wage, addressing climate change, and regulating Wall Street.

Despite their early successes, however, Trump and Sanders are still seen as long shots to win their party’s nominations, and the data from 2012 suggest that once the nomination contests have been decided, partisans will redirect their anger at the opposing party and its nominee. What we have seen in recent general elections in the U.S. is that what matters most to voters is not whom you love, but whom you loathe. No matter who wins the Democratic and Republican nominations next year, we can expect anger at the opposing party’s candidate to run high, and we can expect both parties’ nominees to seek to tap into this anger in order to energize and mobilize their supporters. It promises to be a long and nasty campaign.

For snood and Frank, two who cant get in through their heads that I represent a huge chunk of the American people with my support of Trump. My reasons for supporting him are mainstream. Ignoring us, mocking us, telling us to shut up is not going to make us go away. Or shut up.