Donald J. Trump, the msn who didn't intend to be king
Posted: Mon Jul 22, 2019 12:51 pm
If you've never seen the movie, go read the plot summary on Wikipedia for the 1972 Robert Redford film The Candidate. I saw thw movie once. In essence, Redford is running for a Senate seat against another candidate that is so popular Redford can't win, so he doesn't have to tailor his remarks to prevent offending people, he can just say what he thinks. In the end, his frank honesty wins him the election.
At the end of the movie, clearly shell-shocked and puzzled, he turns to his campaign manager, and says, "Now what do we do?"
I think this also sums up the election of one Donald J. Trump. I have gathered from various sources and commentary, the following thought: Trump never intended or expected to be elected President and his entire campaign was merely a huge publicity stunt. All of the polls and the general opinion was that Hillary was going to win in a landslide.
So Hillary gets the popular vote but Trump, while getting fewer votes, wins the Electoral College count and thus wins the election. And doesn't have a clue on what to do now that he won. First thing was he tries to argue the election was tampered with or corrupted by "millions of illegal votes," and excluding those, he would also have won the popular vote.
Ignoring the fact that, in general we don't have large-scale voter fraud in the US, his attitude reminds me of someone who can't believe they won. Look, if you're in a track race against another person, and you both are running to approach the finish line, your opponent is ten feet ahead of you and approaching the ribbon, when two feet from the line. he keels over backwards and drops dead of a heart attack, and you cross the finish line, you still won even if the other guy falls out of the race for something not his fault.
I can also note that despite intensive scrutiny, no evidence of fraud was found. With the possible exception of Chicago during the Daley Administration (vote early, vote often), wholesale fraud doesn't happen here, and we generally have (very) clean elections.
So lets hear your opinion.
At the end of the movie, clearly shell-shocked and puzzled, he turns to his campaign manager, and says, "Now what do we do?"
I think this also sums up the election of one Donald J. Trump. I have gathered from various sources and commentary, the following thought: Trump never intended or expected to be elected President and his entire campaign was merely a huge publicity stunt. All of the polls and the general opinion was that Hillary was going to win in a landslide.
So Hillary gets the popular vote but Trump, while getting fewer votes, wins the Electoral College count and thus wins the election. And doesn't have a clue on what to do now that he won. First thing was he tries to argue the election was tampered with or corrupted by "millions of illegal votes," and excluding those, he would also have won the popular vote.
Ignoring the fact that, in general we don't have large-scale voter fraud in the US, his attitude reminds me of someone who can't believe they won. Look, if you're in a track race against another person, and you both are running to approach the finish line, your opponent is ten feet ahead of you and approaching the ribbon, when two feet from the line. he keels over backwards and drops dead of a heart attack, and you cross the finish line, you still won even if the other guy falls out of the race for something not his fault.
I can also note that despite intensive scrutiny, no evidence of fraud was found. With the possible exception of Chicago during the Daley Administration (vote early, vote often), wholesale fraud doesn't happen here, and we generally have (very) clean elections.
So lets hear your opinion.