Florida—WTSP/Mason-Dixon–Trump 36, Rubio 30, Cruz 17, Kasich 8
Florida—WTSP/Mason-Dixon–Clinton 68, Sanders 23
Illinois—WeAskAmerica–Trump 33, Cruz 20, Kasich 18, Rubio 11
Illinois—WeAskAmerica–Clinton 62, Sanders 25
North Carolina—High Point University–Trump 48, Cruz 28, Kasich 12. Rubio 8
North Carolina—High Point University–Clinton 58, Sanders 34
Missouri—Fort Hays St. University–Trump 36, Cruz 29, Rubio 9, Kasich 8
Missouri—Fort Hays St. University–Clinton 47, Sanders 40
Maryland—Baltimore Sun–Trump 34, Cruz 25, Kasich 18, Rubio 14
Maryland—Baltimore Sun–Clinton 61, Sanders 28
Barack Obama has selected three top candidates to replace the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia: Paul Watford, Sri Srinivasan and Merrick Garland. Garland is 63 and I think too old. Paul Watford is from the Ninth Circuit, and is an African American and 48 years old. And Sri Srinivasan is 49 years old, and would be the first Hindu and Asian American on the court.
A Republican in 2016.
If you are a Republican and you do not like this, you have two choices: Stay in your party and forever associate yourself with Trumpnazism, or leave your party to start anew. Make it now.
I’m not really in the mood to write about Trump at the moment. If the Republicans cannot, we will rise up and crush his movement in November. Yes, if we are organized and motivated to vote for the Democrat, we all will win easily, no matter the self doubt of others. Trump is baked in as a violent racist Nazi in the minds of all Americans. He gets the support of like minded violent racists Nazis. He cannot pivot to the center.
We will crush him, but the damage he’s doing is going to be lasting.
No, the KKK is not and has not ever been a leftist organization.
Elspeth Reeve says that Donald Trump is Hillary Clinton’s dream opponent:
It’s surprising how explicitly the 2016 election has been about genitals. Republican presidential candidates have often been fixated on manhood, but just like with other themes of conservative politics of the last few decades, subtlety has gone out the window. I used to joke that Donald Trump would eventually expose himself on stage, but then he bragged about his penis size in a Fox News debate and it wasn’t a joke anymore. Too obvious. Yet if there’s not an enormous upset in the next month, this will get only more extreme in the general election. Trump vs. Clinton will be the boys vs. girls election: penises vs. vaginas.
Hillary Clinton had planned to put gender at the center of her 2016 campaign long before Trump was a conceivable Republican opponent. In the first Democratic debate, when Trump had been leading polls but was still considered a long shot for the nomination, Clinton said, “Yes, finally, fathers will be able to say to their daughters, you, too, can grow up to be president.” But now she has drawn her dream opponent in Trump. Her message will be pretty simple: Why does it matter if we have a female president? Because there are men like Donald Trump in the world.
[…] It’s hard to imagine how Trump will combat this narrative. Picture a Trump vs. Hillary debate. What makes Trump so thrilling on stage is the way he picks on guys like Rubio and Ted Cruz with schoolyard taunts. It’s funny to see powerful, pompous men deflated by being called sissies, and the insult has a kernel of truth, since they do talk for a living. But what are the classic schoolyard taunts against girls? Ugly, bossy, bitchy, slut—these would not be refreshing “emperor has no clothes” insults, but more of the same sexist garbage women hear all the time. Trump called one-time Republican foe Carly Fiorina ugly in a Rolling Stone article, and when he had to share a debate stage with her, he just awkwardly said she was beautiful. If Trump used an insult like that against Clinton, he wouldn’t seem like a rude truth-teller, but another gross old man who can’t handle working with women as equals.
We no longer have to speculate whether fascism, in Sinclair Lewis’ famous words, would come to America wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross. We already know what its beginnings look like in the form of Trump rallies, which are carrying an increasingly violent, overtly racist, authoritarian aura strongly reminiscent of the 1930s in Germany or Italy.
Those comparisons were once the province of liberal activists or traffic-seeking headline writers. No longer. The incipient racist violence has reached such a fever pitch that a Trump rally in Chicago had to be canceled entirely. It’s one thing to talk in theoretical or strictly political terms about Trump’s authoritarian behavior, his effect on the Republican Party generally or the potential feasibility of Trump’s policy proposals. But the influence of Trumpism on the country is already so obviously toxic and dangerous that it must be called out and mitigated before people start getting seriously hurt or killed.
That’s just the basic decency aspect. Politically, the Republican Party knows that it has to do something to separate itself from the wildfire of racially charged violence or else lose the votes of every minority constituency for a generation. It’s not just for temporary personal advantage that the other GOP presidential candidates are calling on Trump to act to mitigate the rabid passions of his flock. Those who still have careers to make in Republican politics know that this a point of no return for the entire party and every connected to it.
But try as they might, they will not be able to escape from Trumpism.