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2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumJoan Walsh: Donald Trump Just Destroyed Himself—Sad!
https://www.thenation.com/article/donald-trump-just-destroyed-himself-sad/Donald Trump refused to say he would accept the results of the 2016 presidential election at the third and final debate Wednesday night. He had virtually no chance to become president even before that chilling statement, but he may have cost the GOP the House and the Senate with his dog-whistling hint at challenging election results, with no reason, should he lose. Even his most ardent defenders in the political media couldnt defend him in the post-debate scrum I watched on television. His minions may find a way to rally on Thursday, but they will never be convincing.
With his support in national and swing-state polls cratering, with down-ballot Republicans fleeing his campaign, Trump drove a huge garbage truck up to the debate and tried to dump it on front-runner Hillary Clinton. Out tumbled President Obamas half-brother Malik, the long-ago fiancée of Libya Ambassador Chris Stevens, the stepmother of another Benghazi-attack victim, and a former GOP vice presidential nominee named Sarah Palin. No, this isnt a nightmare I had after over-eating. It really happened Wednesday night.
But none of it mattered. Trump destroyed his already faint chance at the presidency in every imaginable way. He did his best imitation of Alec Baldwin doing a Trump imitation, barking Wrong! at Clinton over and over. At a dramatic point when Clinton was rejecting moderator Chris Wallaces suggestion that we need a grand bargain on Medicare and Social Securitywith an argument progressives needed to hear in its entiretyhe muttered, Shes such a nasty woman. Its worth noting that neither major-party candidate endorsed Social Security cuts when asked to Wednesday night. May the Grand Bargainers please find another line of lobbying work.
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Chris Wallace and Hillary Clinton did their best to make this a debate about issues, but Trump was Trump, sniffing and huffing and grimacing and barking no and refusing to share his plans for governing on the off chance he should be elected. He took his birther crusade that tried to delegitimize President Obama (and failed) to the next step, by declaring that a Hillary Clinton victory will be illegitimate, too. Watching cable news after the debate, there was pretty unanimous revulsion at Trumps claim. Lets hope that endures when he loses.
With his support in national and swing-state polls cratering, with down-ballot Republicans fleeing his campaign, Trump drove a huge garbage truck up to the debate and tried to dump it on front-runner Hillary Clinton. Out tumbled President Obamas half-brother Malik, the long-ago fiancée of Libya Ambassador Chris Stevens, the stepmother of another Benghazi-attack victim, and a former GOP vice presidential nominee named Sarah Palin. No, this isnt a nightmare I had after over-eating. It really happened Wednesday night.
But none of it mattered. Trump destroyed his already faint chance at the presidency in every imaginable way. He did his best imitation of Alec Baldwin doing a Trump imitation, barking Wrong! at Clinton over and over. At a dramatic point when Clinton was rejecting moderator Chris Wallaces suggestion that we need a grand bargain on Medicare and Social Securitywith an argument progressives needed to hear in its entiretyhe muttered, Shes such a nasty woman. Its worth noting that neither major-party candidate endorsed Social Security cuts when asked to Wednesday night. May the Grand Bargainers please find another line of lobbying work.
-snip-
Chris Wallace and Hillary Clinton did their best to make this a debate about issues, but Trump was Trump, sniffing and huffing and grimacing and barking no and refusing to share his plans for governing on the off chance he should be elected. He took his birther crusade that tried to delegitimize President Obama (and failed) to the next step, by declaring that a Hillary Clinton victory will be illegitimate, too. Watching cable news after the debate, there was pretty unanimous revulsion at Trumps claim. Lets hope that endures when he loses.
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Joan Walsh: Donald Trump Just Destroyed Himself—Sad! (Original Post)
highplainsdem
Oct 2016
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madamesilverspurs
(15,806 posts)1. About halfway through
the thought occurred that he was only there because someone had told him that hemlock tastes bad...
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Raster
(20,998 posts)2. You are a Nasty Woman...
Cha
(297,655 posts)3. Out of his league, baby! #SAD
Cha
(297,655 posts)4. Well done, Joan Walsh! lol@palin and Malik were there?!
However did Hillary survive!?
Mahalo, hpd! Bummer The Nation won't let me read anymore.. ads keep popping up. oh well.
sunnystarr
(2,638 posts)5. Joan should fix that page ...
looks like she double pasted and at first made me doubt what I read. That's what I get for reading the whole thing lol.
oasis
(49,408 posts)6. Great article.
ProudProgressiveNow
(6,129 posts)7. K&R nt
DemonGoddess
(4,640 posts)8. K&R!
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)9. Third time's the smarm.
Hulk
(6,699 posts)10. Here's a chance for the whole world to vote
Let the whole world boycott his name. His hotels, golf courses, eat his steaks, buy his trinkets and flashy Made in China ties, etc.
Rot on the vine, and take your twisted family of monsters with you. Shame. Live in the shame you earned with your two year long spoiled brat tantrum. You ruined the already dying gop.