Ralph Nader: The Democrats are unable to defend the US

[Virginiá]

You can thank the Hiillary campaign and the DNC for elevating "pied piper" Donald Trump.

Actually, if the Democratic nominee wasn't an awful candidate, the 'pied piper' idea probably would have paid dividends. It's not like people liked Trump - he was really unpopular during and now after the election, it's just Hillary was almost as unpopular as he was.

But let's step for a minute here. First, did they even make any real efforts to get Trump selected? I know it was talked about, and perhaps they made a couple moves here and there, but it seems like Trump won the nomination for reasons unrelated to any liberal scheming.

[Virginiá]

Doubtful. It was always a high-risk strategy that put politics ahead of the well-being of the country, and it's not as if Trump winning the Republican nomination and losing wasn't likely to have horrifying consequences.

Well of course from a moral standpoint, even subjecting America to just the risk of Donald Trump is pretty deplorable, but if you think he'd have fared the same against most or even any other Democratic candidate, I wholeheartedly have to disagree. I'd be willing to accept that a landslide was never guaranteed and maybe not even possible, but I think Trump's own weaknesses are far too often discounted because he managed to barely beat the 2nd most unpopular candidate in history.