Quote (IceMage @ Mar 25 2019 06:01pm)
You can't simultaneously claim that Hillary was a horrible candidate, and Trump was the only guy who could beat her. He appealed to the loons in the Republican primary, and rode his personality cult into the presidency. If you wanted the most conservative candidate, it was Cruz. If you wanted the libertarian, anti-war choice, it was Rand. If you wanted the outsider with the best one-liners, and the most simple solutions, and the built-in television fame, it was the orange man.
and if I wanted someone who was trade protectionist, an immigration skeptic, anti-interventionalist, less authoritarian, not trying to legislate morality and not an idealogue who would march into the sea- who was it?
People didn't want establishment neocons or full blown cons selling them out to China and they didn't want crackpots trying to abolish the fed and bring back the gold standard