As the map below shows, the Democrats will have to defend Senate seats in nine states that Trump won on Tuesday in 2018, while the Republicans will have to defend only one seat in a state that Hillary won (Nevada).
If all ten of these Senate races repeat the same partisan outcomes from 2016 - and remember that mid-term elections tend to be more Republican-friendly than Presidential elections - the Republicans will have a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate.
Then they go full retard - and the income tax gets replaced with a national sales tax, EMTALA gets repealed, and so on.
![[Image: United_States_Senate_elections%2C_2018.png]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/df/United_States_Senate_elections%2C_2018.png)
That's true enough. If Trump is still popular in 2018, the last 2 years will be a triple nightmare. I think a depression will be likely. I cling to the hope that Trump will be unpopular by 2020, and we will still have the right to protest and vote. We can't count on it.
Would be nice, but mid terms tend to go against the presidential party, not necessarily in favor of Republicans. Given the map Republicans may make gains, but they'll only compensate for the losses this year.
(11-10-2016, 03:48 PM)Warren Dew Wrote: [ -> ]Would be nice, but mid turns tend to go against the presidential party, not necessarily in favor of Republicans. Given the map Republicans may make gains, but they'll only compensate for the losses this year.
Democrats have few chances for Senate pickups and plenty of opportunities for loss. Considering that the Right would like 2/3 majorities in both Houses of Congress, they will do everything possible to get them so that they can destroy whatever remains of American democracy.
Liberalism is dead in the Capitalist Reich.
(11-10-2016, 03:48 PM)Warren Dew Wrote: [ -> ]Would be nice, but mid turns tend to go against the presidential party, not necessarily in favor of Republicans. Given the map Republicans may make gains, but they'll only compensate for the losses this year.
Sorry, but I have no faith in the Millennials putting their tech toys down long enough to go out and vote in a mid-term election.
So I'm betting on the filibuster-proof-majority scenario - which if it does not trigger revolution or civil war, will trigger mass emigration which will make far-right domination of America permanent.
