I looked over my post. I don't see where I said anything about hate?
0.008. I'll take that much failure in my business any day.
You're right about one thing, though. No single candidate in my memory has ever had to defend against such a barrage of criticism as Donald Trump has.
There was no talk about hatin' on Romney -- except maybe by a few religious bigots -- because Romney didn't have the kitchen sink thrown at him by 16 competitors, scores of debate moderators, the entire left wing media and 70% of the right wing media, the GOPe.
Romney didn't get the Hitler comparisons, the KKK racist comparisons, the Mussolini comparisons, the xenophobe, the misogynist; his supporters didn't get compared to mindless zombies and idiots ..I could go on and on and on, you know what I'm talking about. Maybe even indulged a bit yourself--I'm not accusing, just making a point.
That's right, no one mentioned anything about hate during Romney's campaign because it didn't exist.
TDS is a clinical condition brought on by exposure to Donald Trump. Some people have even sought professional help to cope with it. That's part joke and part truth.
Compare the public presentation of Romney to Trump. A gentleman versus a backstreet bully. Romney didn't get the comparisons to Hitler because there was no basis for it. Too many think Trump's authoritarianism has troubling parallels in history, especially since Trump retweeted Mussolini and defended it when confronted.
AC, your man is uncouth. Americans are accustomed to some decorum from their leaders, and Trump has none. He is a narcissist, a man with no unexpressed thoughts, who takes to Twitter with rants against Megyn Kelly, Mitt ROmney, his opponents, characterizes people as low energy, Little Marco, Lyin' Ted, then gets bent out of shape when someone characterizes him.
In short, Donald Trump's appeal is to the basest instinct of human beings: anger, hatred, us-against-them, tribalism. He cannot unify because he doesn't want to unify.
He divides and he will continue to. That's why he will lose and lose badly in November.