"temperamentally unfit to be president"

Do you agree? Or is your view different?

Trump = the political version of a dumpster fire.

At least with Cruz it would have been textbook: Carpet bomb Isis, get endorsements willingly from 'kill-all-the gays' preachers, and more open carry as the solution to violence.

All disgustingly predictable.

Trump got hundreds of votes in MP.

I would really like to understand why someone voted for him. Seriously, what am I failing to see?

Please explain......

"I would really like to understand why someone voted for him."

Read Escape from Freedom by Erich Fromm:

"If humanity cannot live with the dangers and responsibilities inherent in freedom, it will probably turn to authoritarianism. This is the central idea of Escape from Freedom, a landmark work by one of the most distinguished thinkers of our time, and a book that is as timely now as when first published in 1941. Few books have thrown such light upon the forces that shape modern society or penetrated so deeply into the causes of authoritarian systems. If the rise of democracy set some people free, at the same time it gave birth to a society in which the individual feels alienated and dehumanized. Using the insights of psychoanalysis as probing agents, Fromm's work analyzes the illness of contemporary civilization as witnessed by its willingness to submit to totalitarian rule."

Peter: that's a quality contribution.

And a phenomenally scary thought.

I, too, have been scratching my head as to the appeal of Donald Trump having the power of the executive branch at his fingertips. I understand why Republican politicians are willing to accept him - his actual policy positions aren't radically different from theirs, coupled with the fact he changes his positions on a whim, and they feel they will easily control him from Congress (a mistaken opinion, imo.)

Does the GOP not see this being a complete disaster for the GOP down the road? (the so-called dumpster fire spreads to engulf the party?)

It seems as obvious as sunrise in the east.

From Palin to Trump. This is the stuff that launches many a comprehensive political treatise down the road.

The superlatives fail me at the moment, so I will just go with...

Amazing.

More insights on Fromm's Escape from Freedom:

"Fromm analyzes the character of Nazi ideology and suggests that the psychological conditions of Germany after the first world war fed into a desire for some form of new order to restore the nation's pride. This came in the form of National Socialism and Fromm's interpretation of Mein Kampf suggests that Hitler had an authoritarian personality structure that not only made him want to rule over Germany in the name of a higher authority (the idea of a natural master race) but also made him an appealing prospect for an insecure middle class that needed some sense of pride and certainty."

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Note - "..made him an appealing prospect for an insecure middle class that needed some sense of pride and certainty"

Actually, there is an even better treatment on how the Third Reich was seen by the various segments of the German population. Ian Kershaw, in his book "Popular Opinion and Political Dissent in the Third Reich. Bavaria, 1933–45" used archival sources to show how the Nazis were able (or not able, as the case may be) to bring popular opinion to their side of the divide. Even though Bavaria is the main focus of his particular work, it does allow for more generalized conclusions on Germany itself.

All I know is that a perfectly good mustache style was ruined for everyone.

Is this going to be the fate of the forward comb-over as well?