11-13-2016, 07:28 PM
(11-13-2016, 07:15 PM)radind Wrote:(11-12-2016, 03:53 PM)Arkarch Wrote:(11-11-2016, 09:32 AM)disasterzone Wrote: The Trump presidency is predicting what's to come and the 1T attitudes people will take.
I think its too early, but it potentially sets up what will.
If you believe Trump will be a one-term president, then a likely Democrat or moderating Republican may take 2020. Even he is two-term, I think a change happens before the end of the 4T.
If Hillary had won, I expect policy fatigue or more pent-up frustration by red america would have kept her one term. A hard conservative wins for 2020 (was thinking Cruz on a rebound).
As the 4T ebbs away 2024 or 2028, I think the 2020 or 2024 elections will set the tone for the 1T.
I think that Cruz is done.
I think free elections are gone in America for perhaps 40 years.
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.