Simple Question. Will you vote for Trump?

[Fish on]

Yes or no.

 

[Larry Morgan]

 

[Glocktogo]

Cruz has my vote in the primary. If Trump wins the nomination? Absolutely!

 

[Dale00]

Yes No

“Choose the form of the Destructor,” says the demon in Ghostbusters. Bill Murray, et al., got the giant Stay Puft Marshmallow Man. Our political and media elites, on the other hand, got Donald Trump.

Everyone is aghast at Trump’s latest plan, to suspend all immigration by Muslims. But it’s no coincidence that Trump’s announcement came less than a day after a limp, toneless speech by President Barack Obama on terrorism, one that left Americans feeling much less safe.

After the September 11, 2001 attacks, then-president George W. Bush made clear that Muslims weren’t our enemy: Radical Islamists were. Because Bush took steps against those radical Islamists that made people feel safer, there was no significant anti-Muslim backlash, though all the bien-pensant types thought it certain that those rubes in flyover country would get violent.

Obama, on the other hand, responded to an attack by Islamic State-linked Muslims with a mixture of pablum and an effort at distraction by talking about gun bans for people on the no-fly list. (Even lefty publications like the LA Times and Slate thought that idea dumb). Before that attack took place, Obama was already polling terribly on terror: According to a CNN/ORC poll taken between 11/27 and 12/1, only 33% of Americans approved of Obama’s handling of ISIL; 64% disapproved. I doubt that Obama’s ratings will improve when the post-San Bernardino polls come in.

And Obama’s public statements have seemed weak and mired in PC, even as many Americans grow increasingly worried about Islamic terrorism. As Josh Kraushaar wrote in National Journal, “Demo*crats are at risk of polit*ic*ally mar*gin*al*iz*ing them*selves on na*tion*al se*cur*ity in the run-up to the 2016 pres*id*en*tial elec*tion, ca*ter*ing to a base that seems dis*con*nec*ted from the grow*ing anxi*ety that the pub*lic feels over the threat from Is*lam*ic ter*ror*ism. ... The signs of a pres*id*ent in deni*al over the threat of ter*ror*ism keep pil*ing up.”

Enter Donald Trump. People who are unhappy with the things Trump is saying need to understand that he’s only getting so much traction because he’s filling a void. If the responsible people would talk about these issues, and take action, Trump wouldn’t take up so much space.

And there’s a lesson for our ruling class there: Calling Trump a fascist is a bit much (fascism, as Tom Wolfe once reported, is forever descending upon the United States, but somehow it always lands on Europe), but movements like fascism and communism get their start because the mechanisms of liberal democracy seem weak and ineffectual and dishonest. If you don’t want Trump - or, perhaps, some post-Trump figure who really is a fascist - to dominate things, you need to stop being weak and ineffectual and dishonest.

Right now, after years of Obama hope-and-change, a majority of Americans (56%) think Islam is incompatible with American values. That’s true even for 43% of Democrats.

In that sort of environment, where people feel unsafe and where the powers-that-be seem to be, well, weak and ineffectual and dishonest, the appeal of someone who doesn’t seem weak and ineffectual grows stronger.

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[Nifrost]

If he's the nominee, Yes

 

[Ace_on_the_Turn]

Let's see. He's an egomaniac that has anger control issues. He's a hypocrite of the first order. He's misogynistic. He lies with an ease that is both amusing and terrifying. He doesn't seem to have a 5th grader's grasp of how our government works. He's clearly a bigoted racist. He's loved by Putin and hated by the UK, if that gives you an idea of his international appeal. He's a lifetime 1%'er that lives in an $100 million penthouse and has nary the first understanding of what life's like for the "common" man. He's never wanted or needed for anything in his life, except maybe his wife not to find out about his mistress.

All that aside, and most importantly, he's utterly unqualified to be president. He has neither the education nor work experience need to be president. He's only successful business, among his many failures*, is selling multi-million dollar apartments to other 1%'ers. He's never held pubic office. His only political experience is, by his own admission, buying political favor with his money.

So, no. Not a chance. Where's Romney when we need him?

*Just some of his failures:
Trump Shuttle
Trump Casinos
Trump Vodka
Trump Mortgage
Trump Magazine
Trump: The Game
GoTrump.com
Trump University

 

[FullAuto]

Yes..

 

[steelfingers]

Hillary vs Trump. Sadly its Trump.

 

[Wheel Gun]

Not in the primaries. That vote will probably go for Cruz. But, I'll probably cast my vote for him in the General against Hillary.

 

[Rick W]

NO! Based on his personality and past performance, I sure wouldn't want to work for him, and he's definitely not qualified to be President.
I'm between a rock and a hard place. I'm a Democrat, and I don't like any of the Democratic candidates either.
Where are the reasonable candidates of either party?
I may end up voting for a fringe candidate. That's as close as we can get to "none of the above".