BF> KvE> Ofcourse declaring everything one does not like "Fake New", meets
BF> KvE> your standard of respect.
 
BF> There's so many things that surprise me about how this fool could be
BF> elected to the highest office in USA. Most of all that they obviously
BF> don't have a test even remotely like the test to become a US citizen.
 
I've spent a fair portion of my life in the US and I do understand how he got
elected.
 
Everybody in Europe figured Hillary would have an easy victory but in 2016 I
was in the US first week of June through somewhere in September. Upon my
arrival home I said it was not a run race and Trump stood a fair chance. I may
have mentioned it in Fidonet as well.
 
The reason is simple ... people were looking for something else than
traditional politics ... Hillary was the symbol of that. The alternative was
Trump.
 
GOP-voters are pretty stable, they'll vote Republican anyway. The difference
was made by Democrats, probably Bernie Sanders people, who figured they'd vote
against Hillary but didn't realize there was only one other option.
 
Voting away from traditinal politics happened in other places too ... Poland,
Bulgaria, Romania, the Netherlands barely kept its traditional majority.
 
What amazes me with the US that they come up with weird candidates ... Trump
against Hillary, Trump against Biden ... there must be better people hiding
somewhere. In the past Romney, GWB, Goldwater, McCain, ... OK, GWB made it but
how can you vote for such people?
 
From a European perspective Trump has already made himself un-electable, but
come November the GOP will unite, the military is strongly GOP, the mormon
church is GOP and there are enough braindead farts to pull it off again anyway.
 
Also, do not forget, the November elections are about more than the presidency.
It's also part of the Senate, the House, Governors, more local people. If the
Dems win the Senate too but Trump gets elected anyway, which is not all that
unlikely, then his 2nd term will become dead meat.
 
Question is: where lies the power? And where do people think the power lies?
Governors have a bigger say than we think here and even GOP-governors don't eat
out of Trump's hand.
 
Just to say ... interesting times lie ahead.
 
 \%/@rd 

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