Ofcourse declaring everything one does not like "Fake New", meets
your standard of respect.

There's so many things that surprise me about how this fool could be elected to the highest office in USA. Most of all that they obviously
don't have a test even remotely like the test to become a US citizen.

I've spent a fair portion of my life in the US and I do understand how he got elected.

Everybody in Europe figured Hillary would have an easy victory but in 2016 I was in the US first week of June through somewhere in September. Upon my arrival home I said it was not a run race and Trump stood a fair chance. I may have mentioned it in Fidonet as well.

The reason is simple ... people were looking for something else than traditional politics ... Hillary was the symbol of that. The alternative was Trump.

GOP-voters are pretty stable, they'll vote Republican anyway. The difference was made by Democrats, probably Bernie Sanders people, who figured they'd vote against Hillary but didn't realize there was only one other option.

Voting away from traditinal politics happened in other places too ... Poland, Bulgaria, Romania, the Netherlands barely kept its traditional majority.

What amazes me with the US that they come up with weird candidates ... Trump against Hillary, Trump against Biden ... there must be better people hiding somewhere. In the past Romney, GWB, Goldwater, McCain, ... OK, GWB made it but how can you vote for such people?

From a European perspective Trump has already made himself un-electable, but come November the GOP will unite, the military is strongly GOP, the mormon church is GOP and there are enough braindead farts to pull it off again anyway.

Also, do not forget, the November elections are about more than the presidency. It's also part of the Senate, the House, Governors, more local people. If the Dems win the Senate too but Trump gets elected anyway, which is not all that unlikely, then his 2nd term will become dead meat.

Question is: where lies the power? And where do people think the power lies? Governors have a bigger say than we think here and even GOP-governors don't eat out of Trump's hand.

Just to say ... interesting times lie ahead.

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