So is Trump's backbone and toughness why Democrats resort to harassment?

Radicals seize power by any means necessary. This predates Marx, even.

Actual political power is more important to them than anything - including money. Even money is a means to more power.

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Trump's backbone and toughness

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Sounds like white privilege mixed with some Patriarchy and sprinkled with a little cisgender conformity.

What's really best for the county is if all men are physically and mentally weak childlike sheep who cower in fear at all hours and make no decisions or keep any wealth for themsleves.

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power to do what though?

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Power to stack the courts for starters

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power to do what though?

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Install themselves (Marxist SJWs) as a permanent "nobility" class.

Because they know best.

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The political fight is always an intellectual debate

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This is the problem with your stance.

Traditionally politics was indeed the fight of a more intellectual debate on differing ideas. Those who would argue based on emotions over logic were generally weeded out. Even things like the Great Society were argued on far more of a logical cause/effect level than the emotional shrieking we find today.

As the common voter has gained access to faster information and larger megaphones what we see is a large population of emotional debaters as well as those willing to outright lie (whether it's to sow dissension or just chaos). These people feed each other through their confirmation biases and wrap it all up in a vacuum of like-minded thought.

My mother has always been fairly level-headed but over the past year she's turned into the stereotypical FB re-poster of anything she sees that supports her political beliefs without doing a single bit of fact-checking. We align politically so it pains me to see her posting easily disproven bullshite.

To put it all into a nutshell, this goes back to my belief in the a-hole Eventuality. The larger a group gets, the more likely it becomes that some a-hole will join. As more assholes join, the original mission of the group will begin to distort. What we're seeing is the a-hole Eventuality of so many people with little ability and/or desire for logical debate entering the arena and shitting on it with their emotional fulminations.

The Trump family made it's money by being aggressive and using the system to it's advantage.

Donald Trump has acquired what can only be described as "frick You" money.

He's hated for his successes. He's hated for his methods to gain success. He's hated because he doesn't coddle the Whiners and the "Why Not Me" crowd.

He has bypassed the traditional pathways to political power and has kissed only the babies he's wanted to. I doubt that he's kissed much arse either.

It's not backbone, it's his life habits and desire to win that irks the shirker crowd.