Sausy
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Re: Trump Staff Picks
Even Trump leaving somehow, so much has happened in legitimizing the faux populist right wing politics of demagoguery and resentment Trump tapped into that his base will survive his administration, and have their tentacles ready to latch onto another Sith Lord to serve. He didn't create it, the cynicism of the GOP going on since Nixon's Southern strategy which welcomed racist Southern Democrats and fashioning them into the base of the modern GOP did... he merely manipulated and exploited it to full effect. With the corparatist masters and their useful idiots known as the religious base, the Tea Party base, and the economic/white nationalist base... we have a GOP which has taken full leave of their senses and turned its back on the interests of the poor, working class and middle class and frankly has no interest in making America great in the noblest sense.
I was glum then, I'm not much more chipper today.
His temperament has been off the charts bad, his appointments have been awful, his relationships with our allies has been tense have been contentious. He's a sociopath given the keys to the nuclear codes. I didn't think it would go well and nothing that has happened has given me reason to think otherwise. What has me really going is that still, about 35-40% of the electorate think he's doing a decent/good job because the economy looks to be doing okay and he gives every indication of wanting to run again. If Mueller has something on him, it's likely he won't be indicted while in office and will have to be impeached. He's been making delusional statements(par for the course with Trump, alas) regarding his achievements and stature and what would happen if the DEmocrats dared try to impeach him. Democrats look like they will be able to open the impeachment process by getting control of the House if that option plays out(and even that's not a lock, and Democrats have to work to make sure they get out the vote if the Republican base starts to rally around Trump and the GOP to stop impeachment and not take ANYTHING for granted). However you can only remove an impeached President with 67 votes in the Senate, and the Dems even if they somehow flip enough to get 51 seats(not considered likely going on current trends... getting 18 or so Republicans to vote Trump out would be difficult. I just don't see how this ends without a lot of really bad crap going on. Democrats win in 2018 the House back... or even win the White House back in 2020(again, no given even with Trump's lack of popularity)and maybe the Senate in 2020 … I just see tremendous conservative pushback that would threaten any real victory for Democrats and the chance to reverse the damage Trump's election unleashed. The Supreme Court appears lost, until Alito and Thomas leave(and that might not be for another ten years) and the lower courts have had a considerable Trumpian makeover.
Even Trump leaving somehow, so much has happened in legitimizing the faux populist right wing politics of demagoguery and resentment Trump tapped into that his base will survive his administration, and have their tentacles ready to latch onto another Sith Lord to serve. He didn't create it, the cynicism of the GOP going on since Nixon's Southern strategy which welcomed racist Southern Democrats and fashioning them into the base of the modern GOP did... he merely manipulated and exploited it to full effect. With the corparatist masters and their useful idiots known as the religious base, the Tea Party base, and the economic/white nationalist base... we have a GOP which has taken full leave of their senses and turned its back on the interests of the poor, working class and middle class and frankly has no interest in making America great in the noblest sense.
I was glum then, I'm not much more chipper today.
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