09-15-2016, 12:40 AM
The Democrats are nowhere near getting a presidential landslide this time. 2020, following a disastrous term of Donald Trump -- maybe. Let him get embroiled in scandals (he is the definitive crony capitalist, so that is a near-certainty should he be elected), preside over an economic meltdown analogous to 1929-1932, or get involved in a nasty little war that breaks badly for America, and perhaps America gets a late-wave Boomer Democrat (Amy Klobuchar?) as President in a landslide reminiscent of 1932. Such a landslide indicates a coalition of ethnic minorities, the educated intelligentsia, and blue-collar workers. Try figuring what the 50 or so electoral votes Donald Trump would get in his re-election bid if you want a real analogy.
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.