Awsi Dooger wrote:
Trollminator wrote:
They are already getting into their traditional defensive mode. Since Pelosi slapped Trump down on the wall they have quickly put their doomsday playbook to action. From now until the the foreseeable future all you will see is this nonsense to motivate the mouth breathers to vote through fear. It’s a two party system and Americans don’t care nor are motivated to vote so the pendulum will keep swinging. Trump is probably just the beginning of the GOP circus act, they will go much lower.
Exactly. Can you imagine a normal human being following Trump as GOP leader? Seemingly impossible. The Simplistic Angry Male base finally has someone who hates the same people they hate, and is scared of the same things they are scared of, and is equally willing to ignore facts and logic in favor of frothing tunnel-vision anger and insecurity.
So who shows up next, a reasonable person similar to Bob Dole or John McCain or Mitt Romney or John Kasich? Seemingly not a chance. I've seen right wingers calling for Trump Jr. as successor...and they are serious. It will have to be someone devoted to fear.
In a decade or so it won't matter. The so-called Silent Generation will have faced mortality, meaning the most heavily pro-Republican voting block will be a non-factor. Every subsequent generation has a blue tilt. Not impossible for a Republican to win under those circumstances but it would be uphill and incredibly low margin for error. The candidate-to-candidate edge would need to be enormous. That is the reason Dick Morris talked about, "the last Republican president we'll ever see," a decade or so ago. He understood the math and the demographic changes and the generational imprinting. But naturally he had to shut up about it to keep his role. They don't like realities like that on Fox News.
Trump can definitely win in 2020. I am not going to let my ideology deflect the situational perspective. If any Republican won in 2016 he was a huge favorite to be re-elected in 2020. Only Jimmy Carter in more than a century has lost as incumbent whose party has been in power only one term.
The GOP successfully applied the socialist tag here in Florida last year, defeating Andrew Gillum and Bill Nelson. It was preposterous to call Nelson a socialist but one commercial after another branded the two Democrats that way. Then the exit poll revealed that 46% of Florida voters said Gillum was too liberal for the state. I have studied exit polls since 1992 and have never seen anything threatening that type of number. Republicans finally figured out that the word liberal was mostly worn out, so they replaced it with socialist. But the exit poll does not ask about socialism, at least not as of 2018. I expect a related question will be added to 2020.
If the 2020 Democratic nominee does not have a competent response to socialist fear tactic in 2020, then he/she will be on the defensive throughout. Frankly I hope it is not Kamala Harris. I don't trust her instincts at all toward a long general election. That "modern day lynching" comment she made the other day sounds just like her caliber...believing she has to immediately respond to anything and everything. Harris would make one mistake after another, IMO, but based on Democratic message boards she is preferred.
It will take two full generations for Donald Trump to properly settle into his deserved reputation for all of history. Fear, hate, lies, bigotry and divisiveness are not American values. He will be slotted as one of the worst Americans of all time. There will be centuries of debate and disbelief that the country ever allowed it to unfold this way. But right now the SAMs are still in their spewful glory, as evidenced by all the airball posts here every day.