re: Bill Simmons's new website "The Ringer" is officially live

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I'm liberal. But as others have mentioned, Cruz nor Trump are very appealing. I vote republican more than democrat in local elections. I can put aside some of the social stuff I care about in order to not elect an idiot running under the democratic ticket.

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Trump is by far the most progressive GOP nominee in at least 3 generations. I don't get the hate on him from the left - it's more reactionary and fear-based than fact-based. He breaks the paradigm; maybe permanently. I think that's what upsets the loyal left more than his negotiating position on the border wall or Islam. They can't afford to see a right-leaning nationalist party start to bloom because then the 50-year victory that they thought they were poised to enjoy may never happen.

Ask yourself this - if Glenn Beck, Jeb Bush, Bill Kristol and Johan Goldberg all HATE Donald Trump for political reasons, isn't is strange that many liberals ALSO hate Trump?

Trump's right-leaning European nationalism is the only possible future of the GOP. Otherwise the GOP will become what the Tories are in the UK - a watered down version of the Dems (or Labour) and some horrible evangelical Tea-Party bullshite will rise and splinter the right into irrelevancy.