Quote Originally Posted by wufwugy View Post
The "values conservatives" evangelical NeverTrumpers will get on his side and the "barely conservative" Republicans will too. If he had these folks he would have won Minnesota, New Hampshire, and probably Virginia.
Trump didn't underperform in these areas. He won Conservatives and Republicans by similar margins that 2000 Bush did and 2012 Romney did (went with one for a comparable election cycle, and the other for the most recent one), and these are according to exit polls which proved to skew heavily toward Clinton.

But again, I don't really disagree that whoever runs against him will have an uphill battle. His awfulness is going to be most apparent to people who already voted against him, and while some other will be worse off, it won't be immediately apparent why especially in the first 4 years. Any regression we experience on the international stage will (historically speaking) only make it harder for the incumbent to be unseated.

I also don't have full faith in the man who refused to promise a peaceful transfer of power when he was some nobody candidate is going to run things perfectly straight up when he has executive powers. Not trying to be a conspiracy theorist or anything, but for those who like to throw around that Trump is literally Hitler, you should actually be the ones who are most concerned.

This probably isn't a post worth clicking "Post" on, but whatever, I'll probably just self-ban from whatever replies I get :P