01-24-2017, 01:26 PM
(01-24-2017, 11:35 AM)X_4AD_84 Wrote:(01-24-2017, 08:03 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: Culture Wars get really nasty with President Pence.
We are entering the worst four years of American politics since the Civil War... -- and that leaves much allowance for the Gilded Age.
With Pence, culture wars would be worse, geopolitics, economics, etc, etc, better.
Although Pence is a theocon he's not one of the enfants terribles who want to destroy the post WW-II and post Cold War orders, per se. He's a theocon but not Al-Right.
All in all, Pence would be similar in some ways to what we would have seen with President Cruz.
True, except that economics would not be better. He's a typical trickle-downer, just as he spoke in that Maddow show clip. Trickle-down doesn't trickle; it tinkles. Trump may actually be better than Cruz or Pence on the economy. Typical hard-right conservatives like Cruz and Pence are latter day Coolidge and Hoover, and the results of their policies is depression.
The only virtue in getting Pence instead of Trump, through impeachment or whatever, would be that Pence is not a popular hero, as Trump is as indicated in Trump's chart. Trump is a good speaker who can arouse people behind him. Pence is a big dead stick. Pence would be easier to beat in an election year that will be hard to call, and that Trump is more-likely to win than not if he runs (depending of course on who the Democratic nominee is). And yes, that's the bottom line-- for Democrats to win and Republicans to lose. Our republic depends on it at this point.