Current Trump Press Conference: I hope Russia finds Hillary's emails

[Antonio the Sixth]

I hope the Hillary camp has the good sense to hammer out this point throughout the campaign. Drumpf is, for all intents and purposes, the protégé of a hostile foreign power. A real-life Manchurian candidate. This is great ad material.

[Antonio the Sixth]

I can't help laughing at the Clintonites who seem to think that the Putin bit is an effective anti-Trump tactic. And maybe some of you are actually biased enough to believe that it is demonstrably true despite the oft-ignored reality that evidence for a connection, or even of more than negligible manipulation, remains weak.

Then I remember that these are the only folks standing between us and a Trump administration, and I feel very, very scared. It is amazing how detached these people are from the concerns of voters outside of their extended social circles of well-off, highly educated coastal professionals. Even if much of the movement that we've seen over the past week is a convention bump, the polls have steadily trended toward Trump since his mid-June nadir. There needs to be a better answer to this than half-baked conspiracies that reek of desperation.

I'm a Clintonite now?

Also Russia trying to place its puppet at the head of the US is not a major issue?

[Antonio the Sixth]

I'm not suggesting that he's in cahoots with Putin. But what's clear is that Putin is backing him, and it should leave people wondering why he is. It's not often that Putin's goals are compatible with those of the American people.

what we might call the "Trumpenproletariat"

let's not though

[Antonio the Sixth]

Oh, you've finally seen the light, Oakvale? Did you ever apologize for supporting Drumpf for so long?

[Antonio the Sixth]

But, yes, I wrote a very long mea culpa on Trump over on AAD a few months back. I think my main issue was a blindness, due to not living in the horrifying 24/7 US media environment, to the corrosive impact the Trump thing was having outside of politics.

e: That blindness was also partly wilful, probably. Hey, it was fun! Best not to think of the implications.

Fair enough. As someone who might directly suffer from a Drumpf victory (far less seriously than most Americans, admittedly, but still), I accept your apology.

[Antonio the Sixth]

But, yes, I wrote a very long mea culpa on Trump over on AAD a few months back. I think my main issue was a blindness, due to not living in the horrifying 24/7 US media environment, to the corrosive impact the Trump thing was having outside of politics.

e: That blindness was also partly wilful, probably. Hey, it was fun! Best not to think of the implications.

Fair enough. As someone who might directly suffer from a Drumpf victory (far less seriously than most Americans, admittedly, but still), I accept your apology.

I'm glad to hear that.

Just curious, have other "fellow travelers" recanted as well? I'd like to know which posters I can go back to valuing at least somewhat.