Anybody else just love how RW'ers seem to have forgotten that they chose Trump?

[NightWatcher]

He beat out 16 other candidates and was chosen by the idiot republican base. Now they're treating him as though he's poison and was somehow randomly pushed on the scene as the nominee.

I've heard of and even had buyers remorse, but I've never pretended that I didn't buy the item while I was shopping. The repukes are acting like someone slipped Trump in their buggy while they weren't looking.

So now (possibly) Ryan is going to swoop in to save the day just like he did when he took the Speakership? I hope plans are in place to attack the move by the Party to subvert the will of the (stupid) people. I hope Trump makes a stink and further fractures the Party but I assume he will be whisked away to some inpatient treatment for "exhaustion " and we'll never hear a peep out of him again.

[angrychair]

1. It's even more than that

Not only did he best every candidate, he won the primary season by more votes then any candidate in the history of the Republican Party.

[Igel]

2. Don't forget he was chosen by less than 50% of those who voted (R).

And that includes a number of elections after others dropped out, probably depressing voter turnout.

The (R) had the same kind of electorate outsider-bias that (D) had. Sanders pulled in all kinds of people who weren't (D) before, those who a two-party system didn't give adequate voice to (a two-party system really can't ever give voice to 1000 different perspectives, at best it can hear them and then find a compromise). So the Democratic "base" in 2015-2016 primaries wasn't directly comparable to the base for prior elections. Similarly, the (R) base this year included a lot of people who didn't vote in prior years for the same reasons.

It's one thing to win a plurality when the "mainstream" candidate list is huge. It's another to win a majority in the generals. I'm assuming the 3rd party folk don't get significant percentage so that a majority will be necessary.