Awful Dooger wrote:
Awsi Dooger wrote:
Republicans are motivated. Every poll has indicated as much. Trump is an obsession. They won't abandon him or leave him hanging. All the numbers indicate Democrats are more motivated than Republicans, but Republicans are not having the energy lull that is typically associated with the party in power during the first midterm.
The difference is independents. They favored Trump in 2016 but now have shifted against him.
Democrats will need to win the House popular vote by at least 7-8 points to take control. That is quite the ask. As Nate Silver wrote a year ago, the Republican majority due to gerrymandering is built to withstand a lot of water
Like Hillary was an obsession, right? First women. Husband was a 2 term President. Never lied while once as a Senator. Never treated the Secret Service like dogs. Yeah, she should have won alright.
Donald Trump told 72% lies during the 2016 campaign, as measured by Politico and all the fact checking services. It was beyond unprecedented. The average is 29% and Hillary was lower than typical at 24%.
Yet you had people actually believing the 72% liar was telling the truth. That's what sad shape the country is in right now. The same types responsible for the flat earth and fake moon landing garbage around here are willing to be spoon fed lie after lie, as long as it sources from their side of the political aisle.
In 50-100 years Donald Trump will be viewed as one of the worst Americans of all time. It can't evolve any other way. Lies, hate, fear, bigotry and divisiveness can't prosper long term. The current generation of Americans who are supporting Trump and all his lies will be viewed as pathetic, the opposite of the greatest generation. Deplorable will be a far kinder term than history will assign.
So go ahead and enjoy it, or try to pretend Hillary was somehow worse. It has no basis in reality, just like all those Looney Tunes at Trump rallies who sport Q shirts and imagine all types of evil conspiracies behind every rock and every rustling tree. Grab that shotgun, honey.
Here is a great symbolic portrait of the Republican Party right now. Propped by old scared white men amidst their last tortured thoughts:
https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/1026150926271143936