What does the future hold for Donald Trump? - threadbans in OP

If he gets back in and the Republicans take back the legislature, it's over for the US as a democracy. They'll just start appointing successors at that stage, and not bother with elections. That's the path they're going down now and unless the Democrats sort themselves out and find a coherent way to defeat Trump and his lies, they're never going to recover.

Not 1/10th as big a factor as it ought to be. Think about it for a second, everybody: Richard Nixon was going to be impeached for his connection to the Watergate Scandal, and he resigned after evidence directly tying him to the coverup attempt emerged. That was the end of his life in politics, as was correct. He did a bad thing, he abused his power as president, and he paid a heavy price.

Donald Trump stands at a podium near the US Capitol, loudly and proudly proclaims a great big lie with massive silver bells on it, calls upon his supporters to go to the Capitol to 'encourage' those inside to do 'the right thing'. And not only has he not retired from political life, in the sense that still apparently calls the shots for the Republican party, but would be a cinch to clinch the Republican nomination in 2024 if he wanted it. It feels like, with the U.S., we're witnessing the end of political norms and possibly the end of the country.

His inauguration speech would be something to behold. In a very dark, nihilistic kind of way.

If we're being specific, I'd congratulate him on the Four Seasons Landscaping episode and it's contribution to the history of comedy. Outstanding work!

Not much different to the 2016 reign, Zombie Reganism turned up to 11 with culture wars on steroids.

If he were to win in 2024, I doubt he'd last the 4 years , he supposedly has improved his health, but I think he'd slip back into unhealthy habits soon enough.

Whoever is VP would be pretty much running the show anyhow.

The Dem's don't have a bench when it comes to 2024 at all. Ossoff is doing some proper work in the senate but its to early for him, Sherrod Brown has probably missed his moment and I don't see anyone from the house that they could push to the moon right now who could win a general election in 2024.

We seen so many of the big hitters in the party such as Booker, Beto, Warren and Harris who had a lot of backing run campaigns which fizzled out very quickly.

They may be stuck with Biden for now unless someone comes from nowhere.

Stacy Abrams would be the only person who could unite all bases of the party but she probably runs for Governor of Georgia in 2022 so obviously a long shot.

There's a lot in this post I agree with. Hillary's campaign was utterly tone deaf in 2016. There was a supposed story about Bill and Hillary having a big argument on the phone about her flagging campaign. Hillary thought it was all about the Podesta emails, whereas Bill thought that was just an excuse for Hillary failing to address ordinary people's concerns. It got so heated that Bill supposedly f*cked his phone off the balcony he was standing on.

Also agree about Trump (or his advisors) having the finger on the pulse of America to a better extent than the other crowd. Yes, he looks moronic to neutrals and the other side, but he doesn't care. In fact, it helps shore up his base. The more some people hate him, the more he has an enemy to fight and rally his people against. Classic divide and conquer.

What I don't agree about is Sanders. Yes, I do think the tables were unfairly tipped against him, but him running for President and becoming president would be far too divisive. I mean, if you have some Americans believing centre-right politicians like Joe Biden and Kamala Harris to be ushering in literal Communism, what the hell would they think of Bernie Sanders? That he's Joseph Stalin in disguise? You'd have had militias out there acting like his inauguration day was the movie Red Dawn. If he refused to compromise his aims, no-one would work with him. So you'd either get another politician who failed to keep his promises or else one who was a lame duck from day one.

There are QAnon heads who believe JFK Jr. is coming back. Even in the wider world of QAnon, a main belief is that Donald Trump has been chosen as the saviour of the world. If these people can delude themselves like that, I don't think they'll have much of a problem deluding themselves around Flynn calling QAnon nonsense.

Would it surprise you to learn that MGT has seized this opportunity with both hands to show her fans just what an appalling human being she is?

This isn't dogwhistling. This is openly shouting it from the rooftops. "I'm a racist and I am the representative of racists." Only a liar or a moron would argue otherwise and I will immediately discount any such argument as automatically invalid.

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Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Georgia Republican, posted an Islamophobic tweet attacking Representative Ilhan Omar, a Minnesota Democrat, saying people should "never apologize" to her and the group of progressive lawmakers Greene has dubbed the "Jihad Squad."

Stormy Daniels

He lost because people wanted rid of him.

Inflation is a global problem.

Speaking of prosperity.

“US jobless claims fall to lowest level since 1969 as US economy grows 2.1% – as it happened“

”Wall Street's verdict is in: the US economy is booming again“

“US adds 531,000 jobs in October as Biden hails ‘historically strong recovery’“

And the stock market keeps breaking records.