05-30-2019, 11:29 AM
(05-30-2019, 11:18 AM)Kinser79 Wrote:(05-26-2019, 02:21 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: First of all, your spokesman says that Trump could win a 20-point landslide. That is the historical extreme, one requiring a President who has achieved much facing a very weak opponent. Even Reagan beat Mondale by 'only' 18% in 1984.
The real question is who do the Dims have that is better than Mondale.
It doesn't really matter to me if it is 15 points, or 25 points. Everything looks like once Daddy gets to go head to head against something besides an amorphous ideology-free blob he will crush them. He will crush Biden, he will definitely crush Sanders. He will crush any of the left-wingers running.
I'd argue the only hope the Dimocraps have is to run a dark horse but I don't see that happening.
Trump's ideology is absolute plutocracy, and his style is despotism. His regime is fantastically corrupt.
I remember the 1980 election in which one troubled incumbent President was delighted to find that 'unelectable' Ronald Reagan had been nominated for President as his opponent.
I'll say this about Reagan -- he may have been a piece of work, but one never had any question of where is national loyalty was.
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.