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UGLI baby said:
Obama became President because he had charisma, and the audacity to promise to do a bunch of stuff he couldn't ever possibly do.

Trump will become president for very similar reasons.

Hillary is trying to become President off of what? The fact that she has been a politician for a long time? The fact that she isn't Donald Trump? I don't think the average American has a clue what any of Hillary's stances are.

For better or worse, I think Americans want a larger than life type of President. Bernie could have totally been that guy. Standing at a podium, shouting stuff that is both very social media friendly for going viral, and also utter BS that could never possibly happen, but gets people excited none the less.

Romney losing to Obama proved Americans don't want someone with sound policies and stable ideas, they want to shoot for the moon. They want that #ObamaPhone. Go big or go home, No Guts No Glory, It's just the way Americans are wired.
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What were these sound policies that Romney was advocating for? ALso this whole notion of "unachievable policies" turns me off because every precedent that society has set was at one time unimaginable
 
UGLI baby said:
Obama became President because he had charisma, and the audacity to promise to do a bunch of stuff he couldn't ever possibly do.

Trump will become president for very similar reasons.

Hillary is trying to become President off of what? The fact that she has been a politician for a long time? The fact that she isn't Donald Trump? I don't think the average American has a clue what any of Hillary's stances are.

For better or worse, I think Americans want a larger than life type of President. Bernie could have totally been that guy. Standing at a podium, shouting stuff that is both very social media friendly for going viral, and also utter BS that could never possibly happen, but gets people excited none the less.

Romney losing to Obama proved Americans don't want someone with sound policies and stable ideas, they want to shoot for the moon. They want that #ObamaPhone. Go big or go home, No Guts No Glory, It's just the way Americans are wired.
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It's long been the mantra of politicians that you "campaign in poetry and govern in prose." This is because people normally vote with their emotions and are therefore stupid. Your visualization of a John Wayne type president is amusing, but not entirely accurate. The trend in the U.S. for voters under 35 is absolutely moving towards the left at a rapid rate, and this has been apparent with Trump's and Clinton's polling numbers. As more of the population dies off and these Millennials etc. take over, liberal polices will more than likely become the norm. They like having more of a reality show type president, but liberal policies are a large part of this as well.

Also, I don’t think it’s that bad of an idea to use Trump as the enemy. Ben Shapiro, a very conservative intellectual, has pointed out that Democrats attack the Republican candidate almost every year, with good success. The Republicans used to use the Soviet Union as the imminent threat with good success, but devoid of that threat, they have struggled to delineate a scary enough foe. This year, they have tried to use the general idea of doomsday. We’ll see how it works.

Also, Hillary has done just fine in debates over the years. Trump will be like Ruprecht in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, and the moderator will need to threaten him with the genital cuff if any semblance of a debate is to materialize. Finally, you mistake Trump’s self-control of a seven year old for charisma.
 
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