The 2024 Republican nominee is a convicted felon, and adjudicated rapist. Why wasn't there a "Break Glass in Case of Emergency Plan" thread after his

[knapplc]

Do people just think this is normal for a Republican candidate now?

And if so, why is anyone OK with this?

 

[ZRod]

Yes 

 

[commando]

Do people just think this is normal for a Republican candidate now?

And if so, why is anyone OK with this?

it's the new basic requirements

 

[JJ Husker]

It is the new R normal. There’s virtually nothing Trump or any mainstream R could do that would raise an eyebrow any longer. The worst is expected and they deliver, repeatedly. Some of us aren’t ok with it, too many are.

 

[BigRedBuster]

[No message]

 

[TGHusker]

Kind of late to the party.   I'm waiting for the day when FoxNews has that headline or Newsmax, etc.  The cult needs to wake up to their deception. 

 

[Lorewarn]

I'm certainly anything but okay with it, although none of us are really immune to the effects of normalization over time. Trump isn't a surprise, and nothing he could do would be a surprise.

 

[Born N Bled Red]

Do people just think this is normal for a Republican candidate now?

And if so, why is anyone OK with this?

Its because the Democratic party is ran by self righteous morons who think they are smarter than they are. The correct response to a debate challenge from Trump was. "Donald Trump is a convicted felon and a sexual offender. I will not legitimize his candidacy or his intolerable acts by granting him a debate." Done. 

Republicans would have said he's scared blah blah, who cares. Anytime someone asked Joe about Trump, all he had to say is "Donald Trump is an illegitimate candidate, a convicted felon, and sex offender. He is not capable of holding the office of president." Memorize that line, repeat it at every opportunity until the entire electorate can recite it because they've heard it so often. It's called staying on message. 

Now the dipwads are playing into Trumps hand by repeating themselves the same lines that Trump repeated ad naseum. Bunch of damn idiots! 

 

[knapplc]

Its because the Democratic party is ran by self righteous morons who think they are smarter than they are.

There will never be a more succinct explanation of the downfall of democracy.

 

[Dr. Strangelove]

Do people just think this is normal for a Republican candidate now?

And if so, why is anyone OK with this?

Because he was winning. This isn't particularly complicated or hard to understand. 

If huge swaths of the Republican electorate thought that being an adulterous, adjudicated rapist wasn't an amazing candidate then we might be having a different conversation. But huge swaths of the Republican electorate do think that being an adulterous adjudicated rapist is an amazing candidate so we aren't having that conversation.

Thus, he was winning before the debate and now he's going to win easily after the debate.