07-12-2016, 01:18 PM
(06-04-2016, 04:12 PM)Mikebert Wrote: However if the president wins then it gets interesting. If the president is Clinton it means Democratic dominance for the next couple of decades. If the president is Trump it means the destruction of the current Republican party, but Trump will remain. He will probably get a Democratic Congress. If he can strike a deal with them and get the policy needed to restore some semblance of prosperity, he will get a fair chunk of the credit. The Republican brand will be toxic, but the Trump brand will not. Trump could then be the nucleus about which a new Republican party could form, perhaps named after him--he would certainly go for that.That's certainly a possible scenario, Mike. The indicators don't seem to favor it though. My new horoscope system does not give Trump much better reviews as a candidate than Hillary after all, and most other indicators favor a Democratic win for the White House in 2016. In the 2020s, all bets are off. This 4T "climax" will last about 8 years, and the two parties may only be beginning to get scrambled and re-arranged, with the GOP possibly biting the dust and even the duopoly and other aspects of our current system along with it. How far things go depends on how much the millennials and other Americans are willing to venture forward, and with what level of acrimony.
