It was never an issue
Trump says he’ll “never, ever forgive” voters if he loses the election.
What a strange man. Does he think we care? Does he think we’re all best friends, and we’ll be crushed and mournful and forever saddened if he never forgives us?
Dude, I’ll never ever forgive you for running for this election, but you didn’t ask me and I don’t expect you to care. It works the same way for you. We don’t love you, we’re not your buddies, and we don’t care whether you forgive us or not. We’re not invested in you. We’re just not that into you. We don’t think about you except when you force yourself on our attention the way you’ve been doing. You don’t matter to us except as a threat and an embarrassment.
You’re a vulgar, trashy, nasty little man. We look forward to never thinking about you again.
Rationality I agree with you. Emotionally I think you’re being far to nice.
I never tried summing up his entire campaign in one graphic before.
If you do a Google image search for the word “vulgarian,” nearly every image is of Trump.
HAhahahahahahaha you’re right. I even used an anonymous Google to avoid tailored results and it’s all Trump.
That must be Google cooking the books.
Sums him up perfectly!
Hitler blamed the German people for the loss of WWII not his hubris (2nd Massey lecture by Margaret MacMillan http://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/masseys/pastlectures/masseys2015?mm). Like a little kid Trump engages magical thinking. Magical thinking works! “I’ve always wanted to get a Purple Heart. This was much easier.” (in response another Purple Heart veteran starts online campaign to send Trump to war zone http://www.aol.com/article/2016/08/09/purple-heart-veteran-starts-online-campaign-to-send-trump-to-war/21448193/). “I really, really, really want to be President so I will be the winner so if I wish upon my second amendment supporters maybe …”
It’s worse than that. He feels elections are about him winning, about what *he* desires when they are (should be) about the people expressing their political will.
Goldstein (Plato at the Googleplex) mentions Trump in her discussion of Alcibiades.
Re ‘We look forward to never thinking about you again…’
That.
I kinda wish I could seek redress for the mental space he’s occupied so far. Demagogues and narcissists both, I figure probably never dwell upon the costs they exact upon the rest of the world just by being so (expletive) full of it and _loud_. Sixty complete falsehoods they can generate before breakfast without apparently breaking a sweat, leaving the rest of us to run around debunking. No, this isn’t true, nor this, and oh look, this is on fire too, thanks, guy. And who and what have you attacked and maligned today…
Still, the best revenge will be, as always, to live well.