Hypothetical Qs about issues like Forever Wars, their origins and role of elected public servatns would be little more important and potentially informative I think.
Then maybe you should have asked one of
those questions - instead of musing about what might have happened if Trump had said a thing he had absolutely no reason to want to say.
If you think hypothetical questions have no place in political debates, would you consider following hypothetical question unimportant?
I didn't say I think that. But I do not see anything of value to be gleaned from hypotheticals that don't ask sensible questions to begin with - such as "Who would have won an election if a candidate had said a thing he never actually said and had no reason to want to say (regardless of whether that thing was true or not), especially when saying such a thing would strongly alienate many of that candidate's own supporters?".
The only reason I can see to indulge such a question is not to explore possibilities in order to enhance one's appreciation of the nuances involved in a topic - or to consider things from some new angle, or whatever it is one hopes to achieve by the examination of counterfactuals - but rather to simply piss and moan some more about Trump, despite the fact that he is no longer even President, and despite the fact that there are many entirely non-hypothetical reasons to piss and moan about him without having to resort to bizarre and nonsensical hypotheticals.
If Trum had started hot war with Iran (instead of just killing an Iranian General in Iraq and ordering few Syria droppings), would 2020 Prez Election have been "stolened" from him?
Given that I have never contended that the 2020 election was "stolened from him", I fail to see what the antecedent of the conditional has to do with its consequent.
And in any case, that is
not the question you asked. You asked whether one politician would have won some election if he had said a thing he had no reason to want to say (regardless of whether it was true or not), as if the outcome of the entire election could possibly have hinged solely on the issue of his having said that thing.
For all the intelligible difference it would make, one might as well ask, "If Santa Claus had punched Fairy Godmother in the mouth, would the Tooth Fairy have left any money under her pillow?"
