08-04-2016, 03:57 PM
(08-04-2016, 03:18 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: Trump will lose, and I think the Republican Party may fall to pieces before this 4T is over after 2028. Trump is the first step in that dissolution.
A quibble. I won't go into all out flame war saying you are wrong.
But Bush 43 came to the White House with a working alliance between Wall Street, the Military Industrial complex, Big Oil and the fundamentalist religious. Heavy mojo. He had a military disaster in Iraq, and a financial disaster on Wall Street. This went a long way to discredit the Republican unravelling style of government. I doubt that Trump could have beaten the Republican Establishment candidates if Bush 43 hadn't so badly discredited the Republican unravelling ways of doing things. The Republican base is truly fed up with their Establishment status quo, can not tolerate more of the same, and a good deal of that can be traced back to 43. 43 opened the door for Trump.
I have no trouble agreeing that Trump might well become a big step part of dissolution, but will quibble with 'first step'.
That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.