Well there is no point people just calling him a racist - you simply have to say why. Name calling is stupid if it isn't followed up by substantive argument of some sort.
Trump is a racist, of course, you can not look into his hart or his mind, but judging on his actions or his words , one can not come to another conclusion.
It is hard to believe that you have not seen any arguments for that while participating in this thread.
I am not going to detail everything, just for you to, again, dismiss it out of hand. It is all compiled in this wiki page :
Racial views of Donald Trump.
So please stop your fake outrage about name calling (which it isn't, cos' its true) without evidence. The evidence is there, it is you who is refusing to look.
But even if he is not a racist, in a way that would be even worse, to illustrate with a quote about De Santis that also applies to DT: "racists believe he is a racist.”
Which means that if he is not a racist, him courting the racist vote would be a cold, calculated, cynical move.
Which do you prefer?
Amazing though, David, how you keep objecting to name calling in a discussion where you are defending the US name caller in chief.
The overwhelming impression I get, is that he will win in November, and if he does it will be because millions of people like his policies.
Well he did lose the popular vote by millions in 2016, and he lost bigly in 2018.
The GOP started out in 2016 with the presidency, the house, and the senate.
Trump lost them the house already, his maffia style demand for loyalty from the senate, could loose them the senate in 2020.
And i believe (hope) he loses them the presidency too.
The signs are there, in polls almost every candidate for the democrats could win from DT with a large margin.
Anybody would can rub two brain cells together would be better than DT, even a moderate GOP candidate.
I do not have a strong preference among democrate candidates (remember US not my country), but i am glad it is probably not going to be Biden.
The US, and sadly therefore the world, needs some stability so international relations, and environmental protections, can be restored.
I supported Obama in his first term, but it is hard to get a feel about the state of the US economy from over here...
Why, is the internet restricted since brexit? If you really want to know, it is easy to research.
..., but if Trump is so awful, do you think the Dems will replace him in the autumn?
Yes i hope and believe exactly that.
But the influence of social media, the popularity of conspiratorial thinking, and the apparent malleability of what is true, make me doubt every prediction.
That could be a serious discussion point, if it didn't get lost in all the indignation!
There are many serious discussion points, and there is a lot to be indignant about.
But complaining about DT criticism, without informing yourself, is not a valid reason for indignation, IMO.
I even tried to point out some posts in this very thread, which you promptly ignored, per usual.
The only one who can stop indignation is DT, by not not doing the stuf people get indignant about!
Well if that is true, then obviously he will be defeated come November - that is what democracy is all about. Why is it that he is massively supported by a great swathe of relatively poor people? Does he pay them to queue for hours to attend his rallies? That was one of the first things I noticed about candidate Trump. According to the BBC he was threatening to remove Obamacare - so how was it that he had an obviously poor crowd screaming that they wanted an end of Obamacare?
Because he lies to them, David, that is the importance of discussing his incredible record of lying to everybody, especially to his own supporters.
You guys make it seem as if his lying is no more than an occasional fib without any consequences.
Well this shows it is not, he lies about everything, he is believed by his followers, and it has consequences.
For instance, recently at a rally he said he is always going to protect pre-existing conditions, while at the same time his administration is in court to repeal Obamacare, which has as it's most important element, exactly that protection.
His support is rapidly becoming a cult of personality, akin to that of his boyfriend Kim Jong Un.
He tells them what to believe where to get there info, and his base follows the dear leader, they are beyond the reach of truthful information.
As you, they are only hearing sources that support DT and his lies.
They are conditioned to believe that the truth is makeable through decades of lies by talk radio, Fox, right wing "think tanks", christian apologism etc... .
Lies about communist plots, creationism, deep state conspiracies, and on and on.
The phenomenon of makeable truth is worsened exponentially by the rise of social media, DT is a result of that.
I can only speculate about what makes up the support of DT, but he is going to have the unconditional support of the religious right.
They support any candidate who opposes abortion in any form (and no David,
no babies are born and then executed by doctors).
And they oppose any form of gun control.
That is a sizable part of US citizens who vote GOP anyway.
Forget what you see at rallies, they are large crowds, but what do they represent compared to the total?
Something to keep in mind, David: Historically, leaders who build personality cult support , who hold rallies with fiery speeches to motivate their supporters to go against their own interest, that has always ended well, right?
The argument of his popularity, to a certain segment of the population, is no evidence for his accomplishments.
Well nobody has the time to consume all flavours of news, I somehow doubt that you watch Fox News, for example.
I sometimes watch FOX clips on YT, but if i catch them in bold faced lies in the first sentences they utter, i switch off.
There is also a big difference between their actual news, and their opinion shows, which put emphasis on the irony of naming the channel "FOX news" (i know irony is not your thing)
Fox News informed me way back that the Mueller report was based on nothing substantial - and so it turned out.
It really didn't, David, so that actually makes my point.
I am going to risk one prediction, David: Trump will try to avoid direct debate with whoever is the democratic candidate, because this will expose people to facts they may not have heard before.
With a debate, there is less possibility to emit one side of the debate. Emitting facts, in reporting, is often the worst lie there is, FOX is certainly guilty of that.
Should that prediction come true, would that change anything about your faith in right wing media?