12-14-2016, 10:12 AM
In 1908 William Howard Taft was Teddy Roosevelt's hand-picked successor, confident that Taft would continue TR's progressive policies. But then, when TR returned from his travels in Africa, he had discovered, to his horror, that Taft had sold out to the very interests that TR had spent seven years battling against. This caused TR to challenge Taft for the Republican nomination in 1912; and when Taft prevailed, for TR to run as an independent, essentially guaranteeing a Democratic victory in the general election.
Similarly, if Trump betrays the Rust Belt populists, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan and Wisconsin will turn blue again just as fast as they turned red in this election, and Trump will lose, providing the Democrats don't nominate someone who is wilder than a March hare - a very distinct possibility. That is if Trump doesn't get beat in the Republican primary, in which case Trump, with his ego, would probably run for re-election as an independent, thereby exactly repeating the 1912 scenario.
Similarly, if Trump betrays the Rust Belt populists, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan and Wisconsin will turn blue again just as fast as they turned red in this election, and Trump will lose, providing the Democrats don't nominate someone who is wilder than a March hare - a very distinct possibility. That is if Trump doesn't get beat in the Republican primary, in which case Trump, with his ego, would probably run for re-election as an independent, thereby exactly repeating the 1912 scenario.
"These, and many other matters which might be noticed, add a volume of unofficial declarations to the mass of organic utterances that this is a Christian nation" - Justice David Brewer, Church of the Holy Trinity v. United States, 1892