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Why Trump Will Win 2020
Back in the distant days of 2016 when most people imagined that normality would more or less continue indefinitely, Hillary Clinton was running for the Presidency as the most well-qualified candidate in decades. She was running on a mix of reasonable policy and personal competence.
Unfortunately for Clinton, neither of those things mattered very much. Her luck and her judgement were both bad.
For bad luck she was torpedoed by a dull-witted FBI chief (they don’t call the FBI “the feebs” for nothing…) who likely couldn’t stand the idea of a female President and thought this possibility was much worse than having a blustering infantile liar whose primary support came from the Kremlin.
But much, much worse was her own error of judgement. Clinton believed she needed to convince people that her policies made sense and that she’d be a serious and reliable President.
In other words, she had no idea of the game she was really involved in.
Trump was (and remains) a pathetic flabby buffoon. He said stupid and offensive things every time he opened his weak pouting little mouth. As a result the media adored him. He could be guaranteed to pull in eyeballs as the American public were alternately horrified and amused by his feeble posturing. He was a baby-man clearly unfit for even the office of dog catcher, never…
