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| 2016 will go down in history as year of Hillary ... |
Some political people who a week ago were all eager to make public statements denouncing Trump for his retrograde attitude toward women have gone so far as to take back their opposition.
THE
USA TODAY newspaper reported a survey this week showing some 26 Republican
elected officials who said they’re still going to vote for Trump come Nov. 8,
regardless of the statements they made previously that were critical of the New
York real estate developer.
Here
in Illinois, Gov. Bruce Rauner has done a perpetual dance to avoid saying
anything at all about what he thinks of Trump – which has led to Democratic
political interests concocting television spots that imply the need to oppose “Trump/Rauner
Republicans.”
Because
the governor must support Trump if he won’t come out against him. Or so goes
the logic. And most importantly, he can't do anything that would give aid and comfort to Hillary Clinton.
I’m
not surprised there wasn’t some drastic drop in support for Trump’s
presidential aspirations. Because the reality is that there are many people who
are casting their votes for Donald who could care less about him.
FOR
THEM, THE 2016 election cycle was supposed to be the time that they dumped on
Hillary Clinton. It was supposed to be the chance they banded together to put
an end to her political aspirations and send her back in shame and disgrace to
whatever place would be willing to let her live amongst them.
But
for those people, this year has been a tragedy. Nothing has worked out the way
they wanted.
Circumstances
are such that Hillary ought to be able to win the upcoming presidential
election. All the different groups that Trump has gone out of his way to
demonize to get himself conservative ideologue votes ought to be large enough
to create enough votes against him.
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| ... no matter how much Trump's ego thinks it's about him |
The Trump camp’s chances of victory rely on political apathy by those people; combined with the intense level of support amongst the people whose votes are motivated by the desire to dump Hillary.
WHICH,
TO THE kind of people who are motivated by their own irrational hang-ups about
people who are different from themselves, seems like a sure bet. They
desperately want to believe they’re the majority – just like they were a
century ago.
That’s
what the “Making America Great Again” slogan is really all about. If the
electoral system were really “rigged” like Trump-types often like to claim it
is, he would be a shoo-in to win. An honest election would see him lose.
I
couldn’t help but notice the Democratic National Committee’s latest e-mail
fund-raising appeal – sending out a request for contributions. “We are on the
verge of losing if we don’t stop Donald Trump from being elected,” the
committee said.
“Despite
all the failures of Donald Trump’s campaign, the Trump train hasn’t managed to
come completely off the tracks,” party operatives wrote. “No matter what Donald
Trump says or does, his core group of supporters are going to be loyal to him
until the very end, and the polls show that.”
TAKE
THE ATTITUDE expressed this week by broadcaster Rush Limbaugh, who complained
about the criticism Trump is taking from women who say his conduct with them
bordered on sexual assault.
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| RAUNER: Even Gov. dragged into Trump mess |
For
as much as Trump claims he’s going to throw out the existing political ways of
doing things, I suspect that if Donald wins, he would find it frustrating how
rigidly those ideologues would expect him to take their commands – to the point
where he’d wind up wishing he’d lost the election to Hillary Clinton in the
first place.
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