No one gives a flying f*ck about Perot. Perot is not relevant. He’s nowhere near as charismatic or as attractive as Donald Trump. Period; End of Story.
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Perot had nowhere near the charisma and attraction of Donald Trump. The two are not comparable.
And why the hostility, anyway?
You’re talking about Perot on a trump thread, and there is no comparison. In other words, talking about Perot adds zilch to the analysis of a 3rd party run.
It’s like saying Walt Whitman was a pretty good poet. Well so was Adolf Hitler. Are they comparable?
People see the terms ‘Trump’ and ‘3rd Party’, and they immediately latch on to Perot in 92 as if others here are not capable of remembering Perot the clown buffoon.
What they fail to realize is the electorate of today is composed entirely different from 1992’s. They think they are some sort of insightful geniuses by steering this thread to Perot when in reality they are subgrade thinkers.
Donald Trump has already taken a huge portion of the republican base away from the GOPe. He’s already done it. If he goes 3rd party, he doesn’t split the vote, he takes it with him and he adds to the wide support he has from independents and a surprising level of support from traditional democrat demographics. Perot could never even get near to what Donald Trump is carrying.