AFP Action’s Haley endorsement is too little, too late. We’re likely in for a 2016 rerun, with vain politicians again splintering the anti-Trump vote and handing him the GOP nomination.

The Iowa caucuses are seven weeks from today. While AFP Action says it will deploy “the largest grassroots operation in the country and a presence in all fifty states” behind Haley, it’s hard to imagine her beating Trump. It feels like another exercise in political delusion: a powerful mainstream Republican force pretending Trump doesn’t control the party.

There’s also deep irony here. As the major financial and political force behind the reactionary, anti-Obama Tea Party movement, AFP helped create Trump, the man it is now trying to defeat.

  • HWK_290@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    11 months ago

    I got one recently, classified as spam by Android, asking to participate in a presidential poll and with links to click. Of course I didn’t, but I do wonder if it was real… If so, they’re doing an awful job getting people who aren’t complete morons to respond

    • mateomaui@reddthat.comEnglish
      21·
      11 months ago

      I admit I assume it’s a scam attempt. No way in hell I’m clicking that link or going to that website. Report spam and delete.

      If it is real, they need to do much better, not that it will matter to me.

      • Blackbeard@lemmy.worldEnglish
        31·
        11 months ago

        Part of me hopes it’s real.

        “Hey boss, I’ve figured out exactly what we need to do to get our supporters to give us money! It’s something they fall for every day already!”