I see ppl claiming other GoP candidates would have beaten Hilary. How come they couldn't beat Trump then?
sure, but he didn't win the primary because he told the story better, he won it because he told a different story
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the main story he told was just "I'm different" that's all it took.
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nah. he told the strongman story. i'm a winner. i'm the best. i'll crush my foes. i'm what you want to be.
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strong candidates would have burst his bubble, made him look ridiculous, but they didn't
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yeah, or maybe taken one for the team. Cruz + Rubio together never had less than Trump's numbers til both went down.
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but "strong" is contextual. vileness is a weakness in the general in a way that it isn't in the Republican primary.
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he's a blowhard and a buffoon. The candidates could have buried him with his own past.
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his past wasn't a liability in the primary. his past is *aspirational* for the people who carried him in the primary.
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and are still carrying him now, to the (really still rather significant) extent that he's being carried at all.
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the one his audience actually wanted to hear
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dunno, I seem to recall a lot of the crazy came after the primaries.
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