(01-07-2017, 06:14 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: I suspect Trump will have strong unfavorable ratings throughout his presidency, yet stands a good chance of winning re-election anyway, if he runs.
Such would be in accord with 2016 too.
The Republicans will be so corrupt and cruel that they will not dare lose in 2020. Some might face prison time -- and so might some of their operatives.
The key to the 2020 elections will be gubernatorial races in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Florida. Should Democrats win two of those three states, then Democratic politicians there and in North Carolina will be unable to suppress the D3emocratic vote in those states.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.