Why would Trump be any worse a president than any other Republican??

[patricia92243]

He only says openly what the rest of that group thinks and acts.

I have noticed people thinking if Trump lost - then everything would be ok.

We would just have another dumb Republican to run against, so I can't see that the demise of Trump is any big deal.

I may have worded this badly - sorry

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. I think the problem with Trump is that we think he might actually DO what he says.

The other big problem is that he has zero government experience.

The folks who like and support him probably see these two issues as pluses.

[steve2470]

8. +1

Hope your shoulder is back to 100%, Peggy.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

13. Thanks, Steve, but it's not, and most likely won't be.

I can live with where it is, however. It does function, although not as well as the right shoulder...

Thanks for asking, sweetie...

[Rosa Luxemburg]

2. Yes he would

He's unstable, unhinged. He's like Sarah Palin on acid.

[RKP5637]

4. I think there's clearly a wacky side to him. I don't care for Bush whatsoever, but if we had to have

a republican president I would rather it be Bush than any of the rest of the dreadful republican presidential hopeful herd.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

5. I wouldn't want any Republican

[RKP5637]

6. Yep, it would take this country so far backward, and Trump as president would descend this

nation into WWIII.

[TexasBushwhacker]

3. I think our standing in the eyes of the rest of the world

would take a major hit, and that can be a problem when your trying to negotiate multinational agreements of any kind.

[steve2470]

7. he's the most undemocratic candidate I've ever seen

I'm talking small d democratic. I'm not counting fringe candidates and neo-Nazis here.

I'd rather have a boring milquetoast guy like Tim Pawlenty any day (if I was forced to have a Republican president) than Trump.

[Vinca]

9. I would take Trump over a whole lot of the rest of them.

If Huckabee were to become POTUS, for example, we women would all find ourselves in burkas. At least with Trump there's comedy gold.

[loyalsister]

10. He only says openly what the rest of that group thinks and acts

Exactly he has zero gravitas. Imagine if Obama said what he actually thinks (about the Koch, Boehner, McConnell, Trump, certain leaders of other countries, etc) with no polite buffer? I think it could be momentarily satisfying for many of us, but probably wouldn't be very helpful politically or diplomatically.

[surrealAmerican]

11. A tendency toward inflammatory statements ...

... is likely to cause no end of trouble for a president - and his country.

[pnwmom]

12. I think he is the most grandiosely delusional Rethug they have.

And I can easily see him getting in a nuclear war with another narcissist -- Putin, for example.

None of the others seems as monumentally unstable and yet sure of himself at the same time.

[patricia92243]

14. You're right. The only thing that worries me is he could appoint Cruz as VP,

then if he (Trump) gets booted out, Cruz would then be prez. I think Cruz is only second to Trump in craziness.

[pnwmom]

18. I'm sure you didn't mean to say "the only thing," right? You probably meant to say

"another thing."

Because you're right -- Cruz is another egotistical nutcase.

[Exultant Democracy]

15. If we did lose to a Republican Trump might be the least worst option

not because he is any way less evil than the other, but because a POTUS can only do so much on his own. The Trump would simply be unable to do that much damage with the ability he would have to govern.

The white house would probably spend 4 years embroiled in a running lawsuit with congress.

[moondust]

16. Total loose cannon.

Doesn't care what anybody thinks; not influenced by peer pressure. Acting as Emperor, he's liable to get out of bed one day and impulsively order the bombing of North Korea, Iran, or China. *Some* of the others *might* be a little bit more judicious.

[Populist_Prole]

17. Yes. He'd push the discourse much much further right

If someone as recklessly bombastic as he can get elected, it means all civil discourse will be marginalized. Of course there will be the same elements as now that would seek to push the middle even further right: elements that would be now written off as total nutcase-ery, would be "normal" in that new regime of thought.

It would install an 'Idiocracy' fascism 500 years early.

[AlinPA]

19. The others are nutcases, too. Any one of them would destroy our standing in the world.