July 29th, 2016
If Trump loses in November–which isn’t a sure thing, of course–I think it’s pretty clear that we’ll see the following responses, in the following order, from his supporters:
(1) He didn’t lose.
(2) If he lost–and I’m not saying he did–then it was the fault of those cuck-traitor conservatives who aren’t real conservatives.
(3) He lost. It’s the Republican party’s fault. They didn’t do what they should have to support him because they’re a bunch of idiot losers. And now America is screwed.
(4) We always knew he would lose. And it’s a good thing because his candidacy destroyed a useless, feckless GOP. The political system is toast and deserves to get burned to the ground so we can start over.
(5) He meant to lose. He’s a businessman, not a politician, and he didn’t really want to be president anyway. His brand is worth a thousand times more now than it was in 2015. To him, this whole thing was just another amazing business deal.
(6) You think he “lost”? It’s the day after Hillary Clinton’s big “victory” and instead everyone is talking about Trump. He’s a genius.
(7) Trump knows that we’re guaranteed to have another recession and a major terrorist attack during the next four years. Hillary and Dems own that now so when he runs again in 2020, he’s going to take CA, NY, and NJ in a total realigning election. They’re playing checkers; Trump is playing 15-dimensional chess.
(8) Winning the White House was never the point. The point was taking over the Republican party. Trump owns the GOP now and all the people saying the party needs to go back to the Jeb Bush days need to gtfo. Trump is the Republican party from here on out.
(9) MAGA, bitches.
(10) If you think about it, Trump basically won.
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And if Trump wins, we’ll have the #NeverTrumpers saying:
1) He didn’t really win, wait till the final results and recounts
2) Sure, anybody could beat Hillary. Our guy would have won by more.
3) OMG, I can’t believe he said that! He’s going to be impeached!
4) OMG, I can’t believe he did that! This is going to be worse than Brexit!
5) Sure things are getting better but under our guy it would have gotten much better!
6) Sure he won once, but he’s destroying the Republican party for a generation.
7) Sure he won reelection, but our guy would have would have won more states.
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Not this #NeverTrump person. If Trump wins (and I’m kindof expecting him to, although only time will tell), I’ll be there saying “hold on to your hats! The Hildabeast in the Mao Suit has lost (thank goodness), but now we need to brace ourselves for the Hildabeast with the Tribble instead.”
Sure, I could be wrong: Donald Trump might really be a sincere conservative, who will bring the country back from the brink of non-constitutionalism. But everything I’ve heard from Trump’s own mouth convinces me that he’s just as likely to be fascist as any Democrat (because, well, he IS a Liberal New York Democrat).
And it won’t take winning an election to prove me wrong. It will take four years of reasonable policy and governing to prove me wrong.
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How sad! A liberal thru and thru puts an R beside his name, parrot’s a True Patriot, then can’t keep up flip flopping on everything and you think he will be good for America!?! Sad!!!
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[…] Here is your must read of the day. And I think it is highly prophetic. […]
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God help us all
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This reads like a documentary, not a prediction, it’s so realistic.
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The only reason to vote for Trump is because he can be impeached and Hillary can not. We will not have to wait four years to get rid of Donald Trump but will have to wait four years to get rid of Hillary Clinton. Quite frankly, I do not believe this country has those four years.
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Actually, the first reason Trump & co. will blame for their loss is, “Cruz failed to endorse me, & the system is rigged!” Trump is many things, & sore loser is near the top. One thing you did mention Trump & co.would blame was the party. Actually 58% oppose[d] Trump, & only 42% supported him. Trump & co. will inevitably blame party “establishment leadership” for his loss, & this time they will be right [but for all the wrong reasons]. If Chairman Priebus & party leadership had allowed the first ballot delegates to adopt a “conscience clause” vote in Cleveland, Trump would have got less than the minimum 1237 delegates needed to clinch the nomination. Leadership owns this beast/Trump, & now that he’s been nominated, he owns them & the fate of the party until Nov. Trump is Trump, & we all know him plenty well by now [& he has no chance this Nov.]. I blame party leadership for keeping quiet while Trump lied up a storm about Cruz & others [because the liberal RINO leadership [R]s hated & feared Cruz even more than the unknown & known Trump] That silence was fatal for this party. Cruz will vie for our nomination in 2020, not so for Trump & those close to him [Pence & Sessions among others]. “Sow the wind, reap the whirlwind” “Live by the sword, die by the sword” Trump burned conservative bridges in his March to Cleveland scorched earth policy/take no prisoners approach that those around him [Sessions & others] repeatedly told him he’d need in a Nov. win. What’s worse, he failed to ever apologize to Cruz & family after his liefest against them. That in & of itself was [politically] fatal. Trump < id 🙂
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#Amen
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True!!! That’s probably why I’m staying home this election. Unless he appeals to constitutional conservatism instead of moving to the left, he won’t be getting my vote.
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With regard to 42% support for Trump, 25% of that was made up of Democrats who voted for him in open primaries. These days Trump is busy making up excuses why he’ll lose. None of his reasons point back to him.
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“Trumpkin” here. I think if he loses it’s because a portion of the conservative base finds actual nationalism unpalatable, despite their constant assertions to the contrary.
Or because he stuck his foot in his mouth one too many times.
50/50.
3rd option is hillary actually becoming a decent candidate, but that’s about as likely as Trump not saying something outrageous to shift media attention where he wants it again between now and november.
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There’s a difference between nationalism and populism. I don’t think any conservative would deny his nationalism, but populism is a Third Party. This year Trump is its designated leader. Some of us want nothing to do with him or it.
As for foot in mouth, I can’t imagine his saying anything that would offend his followers. If they haven’t caught on yet, it’s not likely they ever will.
Hillary is a good argument against the 18th Amendment.
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For a good time, go back and look at how Democrats handled the 2000 election. I think their list had forty or fifty items.
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You have done an incredible job.
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Will the author jump off a bridge on November 9 when Trump is announced as the next President? How many stages does that include?
President Donald Trump. Get used to it.
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Most ridiculous article I ever read.
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Gee, Last, there wasn’t enough actual news this month so you’ve resorted to fortune-telling? I believe he is destined to lose a close decision and very probably would be ill-mannered about it. But on the off chance of him conceding without a scene, just packs up to drive back to Celebritystan– the shameless response from NeverTrump fashion-statement style-points Alex Keaton ego-before-country geek-cons and their pushers, the mini-Roves, will cluster within one of the following categories, in ordinal likelihood:
1) spiking football; months of celebration re: own historical poignancy; write something about HRC maybe by February or definitely March
2) chin-stroking, somewhat elegiac, pseudo-profound bloggings a la “Rodham had this the *the whole time* which as calm level-headed types we were trying to helpfully point out; America is such an exceptional shiny proposition wonderland, never was there a danger; allons, this too shall pass, remember the Maine”
3) a labored, dumbass “national conversation” about bold strategies to simulate an attempt to big-tent-ify the Gutless Obligatory Party [read: hasty retreat into ghetto talk-radio club] with accompaniment of many Mark Levin hard/softcover products & assorted merch
4) openly defect from an obsolete partisan affiliation that serves few citizens & no civic purpose, in order to become junior-partner Democrats; which kinda confirms the other guys’ whole argument but so what? Scoreboard brahTo be sure, nobody inside I-495’s warm embrace will lose their jobs, that includes all the pundits & their DINKY Jon-Stewart-worshiping spin doctor friends. Commence racking up those ’20 Circus™ billable hours November 9th; non-slackers would get on that by 8pm the prior evening.
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I agree with Nedward. GOP pundits were too concerned with ideological purity. Or maybe just with being right. When the grand globalist experiment produced that great sucking sound Ross Perot predicted as jobs drained down to Mexico, they doubled down. If Trump wins my greatest happiness will be because the GOP Smart Set who betrayed the rank and file no longer have a future in our party. Long time in coming and something I hope to see in my lifetime.
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To Gil Reich:
No. What a NeverTrump would say would be this.
“OK, your guy won. Now he’s your problem”
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No truer words spoken. No reason for me to give him a chance and respect at the begining as I did Obama, I already know the Donnie and the sorrow he his bringing to this nation.
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Never Trumpers are getting boring. At this point, it’s all about your ego and nothing else. If you’re okay with a Hillary Clinton win, just to prove your point, then you were never a conservative to begin with. We already know how grotesquely corrupt the DNC and the Clintons have become. I have never been a Trump fan, probably never will, but I have enough sense to take a chance on him, then to allow what I already know is certain distruction with Hillary. This election isn’t all about your moral narcisism and preening buttercup. I would rather get behind a real fighter than a polite loser like Romney.
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If Mr. Trump loses narrowly I’ll skip #1 and stop at #2 or maybe #3.
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You can’t “lose” a rigged election. Hillary Rigged her own primary. Does anyone really think its stops there? Or ever has? What do you think all of this illegal immigration is for if it isn’t to increase the margin of Cheat for the Democrats – whose own operatives have been caught on numerous occasions advocating and facilitating voter fraud? That is not denial over Trump loosing folks. Its a fact of our elections. They are Corrupt. As corrupt as the GOP establishment and their controlled opposition to the Dems. As corrupt as the EPA, IRS and FBI and Clinton herself. Plan Accordingly and don’t get bent out of shape over this election. Its already been decided. The Fix is in, and your vote doesn’t count – and probably never has.
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lucky instapundit linked to this article…now more than 5 people might actually read this whining drivel
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If Trump wins:
1. Oh My God! Moving to Canada.
2. Prepare the articles of impeachment.
3. At least we have the Congress to rein him in.
4. Will he move to the White House of his apartment in Trump Tower?
5. Tacky, tacky, tacky.
6. My vote didn’t count because I live in DC.
7. You have to admit his wife is pretty.
8. Those cabinet appointments were not that bad.
9. Can I have an interview Mr. Trump?
10. You know that Rich Lowery made me do it; I secretly like you. -
What a silly, silly post. If Cruz were the candidate and he lost, what would the excuses be? What were McCain’s excuses? Romney’s? Dole’s?
Who cares?
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The problem with Trump is Trump. There will be excuses along the way win or lose.
The reason to vote for Trump is easy. Any vote not for Trump is a vote for Hillary to name the next three SCOTUS appointees. Imagine three clones of Elena Kagen and Sonja Sotomayor added to the court. Five ultra-liberal, Constitution hating liberals dominating the court for the next 30 years.
Choke down the vote for Trump.
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The only compelling argument that I have heard thus far, unfortunately.
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Maybe, if he needs them, Trump can borrow some excuses from McCain and Mitt.
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MAGA?
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OK, I got it. Sometimes I’m a little slow.
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go fuck yourself, you hillary shill.
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When you see propaganda outlets having to rearrange there polls so the show Ms Lock her up losing badly to Trump and we see many comments here that support this lying traitor and criminal, to see your hatred in plain view it is going to be a joy to watch the insanity at the Queen Bitch’s loss. If Trump loses and that is highly unlikely then the only thing you have to worry about is the millions of abused veterans and the millions of NRA members. What kind of militia do you progressive rats have?: Silicon Valley. There so freaking stoned they won’t even see it coming.
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[…] Last illustrates the excuses that the Trumpists will have lined up after November, if things don’t go well. I think things […]
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What a bunch of Trumpkin fools! Do not be surprised if he is losing that he does not dump his candidacy! To Trump not being #1 makes you a LOSER! However, those of us that are true conservatives can not vote for him because of conscience! Trump will lose because of his MOUTH..and always being about HIM! When you thought at first he was representing YOU, when in reality you are now representing him! So sad that Americans are such fools and easily brainwashed, the cult worshipers think he is doing what they want, but in reality you are defending the undefendable, IT really is about HIM not any of you!
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Looks like the Cruz non-endorsement didn’t even make the top ten lame excuses.
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If he loses, I’ll only be saying# 3
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In elections and other major decisions around the world it is those of the left of politics who refuse the except the result .So I would be more concerned about the snowflakes squieling like a stuck pig than more rational conservative voters.
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Someone has been browsing a certain reddit sub forum 😉
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People have already said most of things anyway. You are effectively grafting to potentially look smart after the fact.
But heres the kicker: You havent the gumption to say he is definitely going to lose because you knkw less than you make out. Busted.
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[…] Last illustrates the excuses that the Trumpists will have lined up after November, if things don’t go well. I think things […]
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Thanks for wasting our time. He won.
2 minutes of my life I’ll never get back.
Marm July 30, 2016 at 9:47 am
Some of that is true, but I’ll base my judgments on extrapolation and the prescience I have now.