{"id":29325,"date":"2015-07-31T22:23:09","date_gmt":"2015-08-01T05:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=29325"},"modified":"2015-08-29T23:06:41","modified_gmt":"2015-08-30T06:06:41","slug":"revealed-why-stupid-republicans-embrace-the-stupidity-of-donald-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=29325","title":{"rendered":"Revealed: Why Stupid Republicans Embrace The Stupidity Of Donald Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"

The manufactured pseudo-phenomenon of Donald Trump is running the media ragged as they try to explain (to themselves mostly) how such a preposterous caricature of a politician could be leading in the polls of a supposedly serious political party. The truth is that Trump isn’t leading anything. He is merely registering with the lunatic fringe demographic of the Republican Party which is as much support as he will ever get. As I wrote a few days ago in an article titled “New Poll Shows 18% Of Republicans Are Ignorant Dupes With Severe Mental Decay<\/a>“<\/em> …<\/p>\n

“The media is heralding Trump as the runaway GOP leader with his measly 18% of support. For perspective, note that Bernie Sanders, in his campaign against Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination, is pulling support from 19% of Democratic voters. Yet the press is dismissing him as trailing Clinton badly. So Sanders has more support among Democrats than Trump does among Republicans, but the schizophrenic media declares Sanders a loser and Trump a phenomenon.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What the press isn’t telling you is that Trump’s 18% in the polls means that 82% are rejecting him. And if that weren’t bad enough, he has the highest unfavorable ratings of any candidate and the largest percentage of respondents who say they will “never”<\/em> vote for him. However, for those who must have a deeper understanding of this temporary diversion from reality, there is an observation that was made by the philosopher Bertrand Russell that succinctly describes what we are witnessing: “Our great societies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man.”<\/em><\/p>\n

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As evidence of the rampant stupidity being displayed by the Trump contingent of the GOP, look no further than the responses<\/a> by members of a focus group held by John Heilemann of Bloomberg News. When asked to comment on what they liked about Trump they provided vagaries that were devoid of any substance that could be applied to an actual agenda. And what’s worse, they seem to think that being obnoxious is synonymous with being truthful. The group responded with statements like…<\/p>\n