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By a 3-to-1 margin, Trump supporters embrace his personality over his policies

Exactice said:
It makes no sense to me that people think being a POTUS is a popularity contest on how you look not how you act.

Funny I thought the potus was to enforce existing laws elect federal officials protect Americans and direct the budget. But. Dumbass people want to make it personal.

Obama’s was a beautiful president that didn’t do squat. Trump is a moral scumbag that has done plenty. Guess people’s priorities are how good you look not by what you actually do. How far we have fallen.
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You mean Trump is a moral scumbag who has UNDONE plenty. There is a difference. It is far easier to wreck things than actually make policy. Trump has been a wrecking ball not a builder. Sort of like his whole life...
 
Crosscheck said:
The bar for a president's conduct has been laid flat on the floor.

From here on any attack on a presidential candidate will be rebuked by "Look what Trump did?'

It will be a large task by any candidate to top paying off a porn star for sex while wife was having your son.
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True but in the future they will have abandoned trump like they have GW Bush and moved onto their next cult leader with a fresh start.
 
Verax said:
Republicans and Democrats are not the same. Democrats do not like rude assholes that lie constantly about everything. Watch the Republican and Democratic primary debates and notice the difference between the two? They are wildly different.

What they like is somebody who is well spoken, respectable, pragmatic, and doesn't rock the boat too much. Sanders and Warren are the closest thing to an exception to this as they are far more outside the norm yet they are nothing like Trump.
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Trump is an anomaly for both parties. I merely argue that desperation is what produced this anomaly. Everyone likes well spoken, respectable, pragmatic politicians who don't rock the boat, until those qualities are not enough to beat your opponent. Do you think that the democrats will vote for someone with those respectable qualities who is intimidated by Donald Trump in 2020? If their only choice was someone without any of those qualities, but who had the strength and audacity to stand up to him and go toe to toe, don't you think they'd abandon their preferences and just settle for their best chance at kicking Trump to the curb?

Hillary was a favorite to win the 2016 election. Republicans didn't feel that a respectable presidential demeanor alone would have been enough to prevent another democratic administration. Conversely, democrats thought they could afford to vote for a well spoken pragmatic candidate. Because of this, we now have the Trump administration.

You might never vote for a person like Donald Trump no matter what the political climate. But the democratic party would if it was their only hope of gaining control in an historically politically hostile climate. And a vocal minority of democrats would then defend this person regardless of how silly it made them sound.
 
lwf said:
Trump is an anomaly for both parties. I merely argue that desperation is what produced this anomaly. Everyone likes well spoken, respectable, pragmatic politicians who don't rock the boat, until those qualities are not enough to beat your opponent. Do you think that the democrats will vote for someone with those respectable qualities who is intimidated by Donald Trump in 2020? If their only choice was someone without any of those qualities, but who had the strength and audacity to stand up to him and go toe to toe, don't you think they'd abandon their preferences and just settle for their best chance at kicking Trump to the curb?

Hillary was a favorite to win the 2016 election. Republicans didn't feel that a respectable presidential demeanor alone would have been enough to prevent another democratic administration. Conversely, democrats thought they could afford to vote for a well spoken pragmatic candidate. Because of this, we now have the Trump administration.

You might never vote for a person like Donald Trump no matter what the political climate. But the democratic party would if it was their only hope of gaining control in an historically politically hostile climate. And a vocal minority of democrats would then defend this person regardless of how silly it made them sound.
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No Trump is not an anomaly. The right wing lunaticsphere has been cranking out angry assholes for decades because it resonates with their viewers. They hate "political correctness" because they like being assholes and offending people. The right doesn't want a polished diamond, they want the meanest son of a bitch they can find.

Obama was great at standing up to everyone and he was completely respectable. Democrats don't want a loud mouth idiot that sinks to Trump's level.

I'm not sure how you made the leap that Democrats not voting for a Democratic equivalent of Trump is what cost them the election. I have a suspicion it is entirely made up to support your position.

We'll have to agree to disagree.
 
Barnacle said:
I can't read the WaPo article because of a paywall, so can you please let me know the questions that were asked in the poll that led the WaPo to the conclusion that Trump supporters embrace his moral standards. Thank you!
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Open the Wapo article in a private browser window.
 
Barnacle said:
What's a private browser window?
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It may be called incognito, in Chrome; private browsing, etc. Go to your File menu and look at the choices.
 
MTAtech said:
This one has me scratching my head. The guy that cheats on his wife with porn stars and Playboy centerfolds, cheats contractors and condo buyers out of money, and makes seven public lies a day, is considered to set a high moral standard by over half of Republicans.
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That's easy. Their media outlets of choice flatter Trump, so they hear very little negative news about him.
 
Visbek said:
That's easy. Their media outlets of choice flatter Trump, so they hear very little negative news about him.
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You say that as if that was even possible when so much of the so-called journalism is deeply hostile towards our President.

SAD
 
Hawkeye10 said:
You say that as if that was even possible when so much of the so-called journalism is deeply hostile towards our President.
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Uh, hello? Fox News, Limbaugh, right-wing talk radio, Breitbart, Washington Times, NY Post... There is a whole right-wing media ecosystem friendly to Republicans and Trump. So yes, that is entirely possible. You missed the obvious. SAD
 
Trump, I'll have to admit, is not a very good moral person like at all. But he never claimed to be either.
 
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