I may worry that the protestors may help Trump, but I do not worry about the protestors. They are acting in a long American tradition. I do worry about the possibility of President Trump. And more now.
I still think that Rafael Cruz would make a less dangerous President. Why? Read.
ADDENDUM: It is clear that Melania Trump’s decision to lash out at the author is part of a deliberate strategy. The actual GQ profile of her is quite flattering, if not as much to her father. And the one putative error she called out was not, in fact, an error: the author wrote exactly what Ms. Trump said she should have written. I can only conclude that the Trump machine deliberately decided to call out the internet (and possibly real world) dogs as part of a strategy of intimidation against the press. And that is reprehensible.
And scary, in that Trumpist interdogs are a thing. Could Ted Cruz or Hillary Clinton call out the trolls, even if they wanted to?
There's been a lot of chatter lately about the economy slowing down and going into an "earnings recession", often with the implication that this is good for Trump. I can't decide how much of the 2016 recession talk is motivated reasoning, though.
Posted by: Matt McIrvin | May 02, 2016 at 07:45 AM
An earnings recession is unlikely to harm Clinton's prospects. A broad recession would harm her but there's no evidence for a recession in the next 4 months. In some respects the economy doesn't have so far to fall at this point in the economic cycle to cause a recession.
I'd be more concerned about 2018 being a bloodbath if a recession hits in late 2017.
Posted by: Dave K. | May 07, 2016 at 04:21 PM