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The Most Popular

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So Donald Trump thinks he’s the best thing since the Beatles, but everyone knows this.  It’s basically his slogan to the world.  He’s the best, he’s a genius, a man among men and every woman’s dream. And he wants everyone else to share in on that enthusiasm he has for himself.  In an interview he gave during his time in the UK, Trump proclaimed himself the most popular Republican of all time, more popular than even Abraham Lincoln, the Great Emancipator himself.  Now there are a few things wrong in that statement, which should make you feel better if find yourself screaming in anger at your computer screen.  First off, no one knows what he’s basing that statement on.  There was a recent poll that suggested that among about 88% Republicans, he’s pretty popular right now.  But that certainly doesn’t make him the most popular Republican in history.  In fact, most Republican presidents since the age of polling began have been as popular and more during their time.  Secondly, and this is a big one, Abraham Lincoln didn’t live in an era of polling.  We have no numbers at all to indicate what the consensus of him was during his time, and I can assure you, during our time?  He’s basically considered a superhero. There is an actual blockbuster film centered on the premise of Lincoln being a superhero monster hunter.  The fact is, I feel fairly confident that there is only one group of people in Trump’s “base” that would consider him more popular than Lincoln, and I have to wonder, is that where he’s getting his information?

Candidate Crisis

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The GOP seems to have a Nazi problem.  Seriously. At least 3 congressional GOP candidates have openly admitted to being white supremacists with Nazi and neo-Nazi sympathies.  There was a period of time when  finding that kind of information out would have been something to end a political career.  It feels like several giant leaps backward that it’s being used to kickstart them.  To their credit, the mainstream Republican party does see this as an inconvenience.  They’ve been doing their level best to keep their image away from that ideology, and disavowing these upstarts openly, but it’s still unfortunate to note that these candidates seem to be gaining momentum rather than stalling out.  But what happens when these outliers become less abnormal?