Grope a dope: Trump is on the ropes now

[Dill]

(10-08-2016, 01:11 PM)bfine32 Wrote: 1) It appears you answered your own question, but left out his lying about the affair and a couple others. If you want to compare what Trump did when he was not in the rhelm of politics with the actions of a sitting President; then I have to question your objectivity

2) Perhaps she just emailed someone about her relationship(s).

Ok, add that he "lied" about the consensual affair. No one thinks what he did was great. He was punished for it. I repeat, he is not running for president right now.

So no way Hillary should be blamed for what Bill did, and no way Trump should get a pass because Bill misbehaved AND WAS PUNISHED for it.

Further, people may have consensual affairs without demeaning women as a group and certainly without assaulting them.
The implication of the Trump video is that he was PROUD of ASSAULTING women who were not consenting. This would matter if he were not running for president, and now that he is, it matters more.

Finally, the video was not a one off, something that came totally out of the blue and took everyone by surprise. From the beginning of his campaign Trump has spoken of women in horribly demeaning terms we have never heard from a presidential candidate. Enough women from his past have stepped forward to establish a long-term pattern of abuse, and his manner of handling the accusations has only lent credence to them ("Check out her porn video").  He has surrounded himself with core advisers of similar history--known for philandering, broken marriages, spouse abuse, and world-class sexual harassment suits. Likely they see no difference between consent and assault either. But a majority of Democratic and Republican women see this distinction very clearly.

I grant none of this is problematic for the core Trump supporter. But the majority of the country does not approve, including a sizeable number of principled conservatives. While core Trump supporters continue their bafflement at his plummeting polls ("Geez, everybody cheats and assaults sometime; and after 10 years who cares?"), all those bridges built by the RNC are now burning. 

The damage now goes way beyond the election, to the core principles of the Republican party, dividing its constituents, probably permanently.