Report Card for Donald Trump

[Marypoza]

(02-13-2017, 11:29 PM)Eric the Green Wrote:

(02-11-2017, 08:57 AM)Mikebert Wrote: Then Clinton lost. Trump's victory in 2016 does not rule out 2008 entirely, but a victory in 2020 would. So I am not sure how to proceed

I hate to tell ya again, but even a 2020 Republican victory, which may well happen now, will not rule out 2008 as a starting date for the 4T. It just means the Republicans will be able to stir things up even more until they fail and the people rise up. The 2022 election would be so lopsided that the Republican president would be reduced to a figurehead. Then the Democrats would take over in 2024.

The New Deal is not the model for this saeculum; the Civil War is, and we are in the 1850s.

Trump's election as the so-called president demonstrates beyond any doubt that the nation is in total crisis. A mistake like this can only be made during a 4T. And I say that even though I agree probably Trump could have beaten Hillary Clinton anytime. But he could only have run and won during a 4T, because he is a walking, talking disaster, and it shows the depths to which Americans have fallen. It means quite literally that the level of hate in the USA is quite high, which reminds us of the era before the civil war.

So I guess we'll see if, as Hillary said, "love trumps hate."

Rule by one party over a length of time happened AFTER the Revolution, when the Democratic-Republicans froze out the Federalists and other parties during the era of good feelings, and when the Republicans dominated the Democrats after the Civil War. The Democrats' rule in the 1930s and 40s was more like the anomaly. More likely, one party dominance is likely toward the end of a 4T and/or during the consensus of the following 1T.

-- this all presupposes that the Dems don't make themselves irrelevant in the meantime