like_that;1795012 wrote:I wouldn't consider Trump more liberal, especially considering how far left Bernie took Hillary, but I will agree that he is definitely a democrat. Just shows how dumb our country is where you can find a large base of voters with a few conservative hot takes.
I look at both Clinton and Trump as being the more poli-savvy centrist sort of candidate. Bernie was firing up the far left, so Clinton went farther left to counter that. Trump went from "lol, he's running, this oughta be good..." to the nominee because he took his natural outspokenness and brought in those conservative hot takes to suddenly brand himself as a straight-shooting, anti-PC man's man sort of candidate who won solely on charisma and his ability to strike a nerve with almost anyone in some way.
In a way, it's almost hilarious in how it's showing just how stupid people are. Even seemingly smart people. Like, for just one example, look at the Gawker SJWs. They jump on every single thing Trump says or does like he's the outright anti-christ virtually every single day. Just yesterday, it was him sitting in Trump Tower with what looked like a Taco Bell bowl saying that he loves Hispanics (since it was Cinco De Mayo). How fucking stupid do you have to be to believe this was him genuinely being that "awkward semi-racist uncle" character? Pure calculated move to troll people like that, so they'd get on their soapboxes and give him another wave of left-generated controversy to ride, while his supporters applaud how he isn't afraid to "make waves" or whatever.
I'm not the smartest guy in the room, but it's so, so easy to see through all this. Politics just makes people too passionate. Affects their brain waves or something.