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I mean, seriously - after everything he's said, why is he still a candidate?

I'm really curious as to what people see in him. (Besides "because Republicans are all terrible psychopaths" etc, which I don't think is even true.)

From what I understand, his appeal is mainly in that he is an outsider by virtue of not being a politician and he is angry, which apparently works for people.

This, pretty much. That's the main thing I hear from people who like him: "He says what's on his mind! He doesn't care about being PC!"

Mind, I think his whole schtick is pretty calculated in its own warped way, but still...

Whatever their reasons, though, the fact he's getting support at all is still embarrassing as hell.

Yeah, it's kind of frightening.

If I would have to make a guess - frustrated, bigoted people who finally feel that someone is saying what they've been quietly thinking, and suddenly feel validated.

this guy has an interesting theory http://www.cracked.com/blog/why-comparing-donald-trump-to-hitler-makes-perfect-sense_p2/

Click baity title but the article itself is pretty interesting

And that was written BEFORE Trump started in on the whole "Muslims should have special IDs" things and other recent BS.

They confuse him for Boris Johnson? Though honestly, with Boris possibly becoming tory leader, the mental image of two interchangeable straw-haired buffoon leaders is pretty hilarious.

Edited 2015-11-25 01:56 (UTC)

Because at least he doesn't sugar-coat things? IDK, politicians being oily and slippery and never saying anything clearly and trying to please everyone by using lawyer-y tricky language pisses a lot of people off, and however otherwise horrible he is, that's one flaw that Trump is absolutely not guilty of.

That's an eerily good point.

It seems like it's still BS. He's being nasty, which reads as honest, but he's just spouting bullshit he knows his base will enjoy.

Yeah, and honestly, I don't know which is worse: the idea of him genuinely believing the shit he spouts, or the idea of him just saying whatever he knows will get the GOP base riled up, regardless of how offensive or untrue it may be. It doesn't speak well for him or his supporters either way.

Yup.

I know a while back someone posted a theory that Trump is trolling the Republican party to splinter Republican votes, so the Democrats will ultimately win the election.

It's just the sort of diabolically just-sort-of-brilliant thing he would do. I mean, this is the guy who goes into business with a partner, runs said business into the ground, then when the partner bails, he immediately turns it around to make a substantial profit.

I may not like him or his methods, but I'll give him his due.

they hate mexicans and muslims

He appeals to their understanding of the world and their emotional feelings in a way no other candidate does. They have a real, material feeling that the country is going down the tubes, that the economy doesn't function, that immigrants and Mexicans are dangerous, and he confirms all of those beliefs. They think the official story is wrong and that the Establishment is lying to them - political correctness etc - and he confirms this and claims to reveal the hidden truth. And he appeals to their sense of strength and how they understand things truly getting done. He gives them a sense of coming out on top again, an idea that if you just listen to him the world will make sense again. And all the people who disagree with him are the liars or the enemy anyway. In other words, they support him because - given their worldview - he's the perfect candidate, and they purely don't give a shit about any of the reasons that we think he's terrible. They don't share the belief that those things are terrible.

Racism. That's pretty much it. He's exposing a really ugly side of the voting base that votes the way they do specifically because of racism. Throw in "outsider" status ('cuz he's not like those dirty, dirty, not-racist-enough ~establishment~ Republicans) and a whole bunch of IM ANGRY and it's real easy to whip like-minded people up into a frenzy, because they finally have someone saying out loud what they've been thinking all along.

Because a significant part of the American public really is that bigoted.

This.

Trump represents some of the worst ugliness of a human spirit. None of his voters see the irony in voting for a person who puts that on display.

There are lots of people who could probably answer that question, but I highly doubt any of them frequent F!S.

Because they are stupid idiots.

SFAM: The End of Godwin's Law

Edited 2015-11-25 14:08 (UTC)

Because I want the country to go full on Republican Tea Party, see all safeguards and liberties snatched away, see trillions of dollars and thousands more lives spent in overseas wars, and have the country try to run without taxes and without spending for four years. I want it so that we really feel the full force of Republicanism applied without mercy. The resultant wreck of a nation might finally be done with the disease that is modern Republicanism by that point and be ready to tax and spend again.

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