The Partisan Divide on Issues

[Eric the Green]

(11-29-2020, 02:33 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: Let's not forget that the Skowronek cycle is in operation. Donald Trump may not have lost in a landslide, but he did lose. He is the definition of a "disjunctive" President, the Last Hurrah for a political phase at or near the end of its run. Of course one can ascribe his failure as President to his eccentric (to put it as sympathetically as possible) style as a leader, but his neoliberal ideology has begun to lose its appeal to younger adults.

To be sure, except for the Presidential election, 2020 was a status-quo election... but when things are not so bad for electoral canvassing, things could get very bleak for the GOP -- especially when the Democrats come out with new, younger candidates for seats now held by rusty old pols.

The Skowronek cycle was fulfilled. And it went along with the Jupiter-Saturn conjunction as well (a 20-year cycle and about half of the Skowronek Cycle), which usually indicates the fall of the party in power, and indicated for 120 years the death in office of the president elected close to its occurrence. We'll see how long the Republican red-staters and Reaganomics believers can keep up the great walls they have built to hold back the pressures to their power and status from within and from without. Certainly the war against immigrants is over, and the new Sec. of Homeland Security will see to that.