Runningart2004 wrote:
If it was against ANY other politician it would be career suicide (see: Moore, Alabama). I can understand not believing one accuser....but there have been over a DOZEN accusations of sexual misconduct, assault or rape.
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Tariffs are still hurting farmers and his immigration policy is causing harm to children and in some cases death. Add that to the ticking time bomb that is the economy and I believe a wave is building that will crest and crash sometime before Nov '20.
I had a professor who said that, for an argument to be productive, all the parties had to be able to say--sincerely: "But I could be wrong." If they can't say that, then you've got a "religious" argument, wherein people don't listen but just throw words past each other. (And it need not actually be about religion: Think Yankees fans vs. Red Sox fans.)
President Trump's hardcore supporters *cannot* be wrong about him, because they have equated him with themselves. They can no more give up being Trumpers than they can give up being, say, Christians--because they would be negating themselves.
So they will forgive him anything--literally *any* criminal act, no matter how heinous--or simply say that any evidence of perfidy on his part *must* be fake, because they CANNOT be wrong about him.
And they will double down on their adherence to him, whenever his competence or honesty or patriotism is assailed, because *they* are being assailed, and they can't permit the possibility that those who are attacking could be right.
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Now, more practically: As others have observed in this thread (a while back), Trump's tariffs may very well have the unintended but salubrious effect of letting some of the steam out of an overheated economy. I've been paying close attention but see no indication of a so-called Trump Slump before 2021, and maybe later.
Two and one-half years ago, the astute Mike Bloomberg said he thought DJT had a better than 50/50 chance of being re-elected. I agreed, then and now. I hope it doesn't come to pass, but wouldn't be surprised at all if it did. It's hard to stay furious continually, and I don't see the anger that impelled the Democratic successes in 2018 as a major factor in 2020: simple outrage fatigue.