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In reply to the discussion: Taibbi: We may not have that many outright Nazis... but we have plenty of cowards and bootlickers [View all]phantom power
(25,966 posts)who will hitch their boxcar to Trump's train anyway, because he's winning and, well, they're boot-lickers who want a VIP seat at the feeding trough if he wins.
Most endorsement-related politics is like this, even for non-insane politicians and political parties. There's a real motivation to endorse the candidate you think is most likely to win, because if you endorse candidate-X, and X loses, then candidate-Y (who actually won) isn't going to forget that. You're going to be at a disadvantage compared to all the people who endorsed candidate-Y.
Paradoxically, the more insane a candidate is, the higher that motivation might be. Sure, you're endorsing the insane guy, but he's exactly the guy who you might be genuinely afraid to piss of, if he wins.