Trump will go around preparing for a "The Real Inauguration", the inauguration of the real President, but in the end nothing will come out of it and it will turn out to be a scam to get people to give money to fund his oncoming legal battles. — ssu
Depends on if Biden can even run by then. If not then the Democrats will most likely nominate Harris whose message is *checks notes* being the first Black, Asian American Female president. She'll probably have Buttigieg as her running mate as well, who will be the first gay VP if elected. I mean, Biden's cabinet was praised for it's diversity (despite being full of the same corporate goons) so it's very obvious that the party is all in on identity politics as their winning pitch for the foreseeable future. — Mr Bee
The headline I'm looking at is Trump demands that Barr look harder for proof of voter fraud — tim wood
I don’t know, to be honest, whether he’s got it straight in his head on what is real and what is unreal. That is why, at the end of the book, I say, in totality, my judgment is this is the wrong man for the job. — Bob Woodward
I meant I don't see the Democrats winning next time. They had the "not Trump" turn out now but that's gone next time. And the corporate shill spiel, I'm betting Americans are smarter than that and if not smarts then definitely they must feel something is off after the lost decade with terrorism wars and the first crisis and now a pandemic and another crisis where again the rich aren't bleeding like the next man. Two lost decades? They sense the inequality and the betrayal hence Trump last time. — Benkei
They had the "not Trump" turn out now but that's gone next time. — Benkei
I guess Trump does not have any. — tim wood
I guess I don't disagree for the most part, but if the Democrats would win again, it would be with an incumbent on the ticket instead of Ms. identity politics on steroids (and even then it's a 50/50 thing). It's clear the party has learnt the wrong lessons from last time and they'll go on pretending like the problem is not with them which isn't a good sign for their future.
The only other way I can see the Dems winning again is if Trump somehow blows his party up in the next 4 years. It's crazy to say that that's not a total impossibility but that's where things have gone in America. — Mr Bee
I agree except that the GOP blowing up means the Democrats won't offer real policy changes because they won't have too. — Benkei
Along with many other state-level Republican election officials, Sterling and Raffensperger have shown admirable commitment to the rule of law. Their refusal to participate in Trump’s attempted autogolpe helped avert a constitutional crisis. Yet it’s hard not to notice that their outrage is a bit selective. — Michelle Goldberg
“The Republican establishment, and also the conservative establishment, has always made this bet that it could open Pandora’s box and close it on command,” Rick Perlstein, a historian of American conservatism, told me. They could activate tribalism to achieve power, while maintaining a modicum of respectability. They could create an alternative reality but keep people enclosed within it. But with Trump “having pried Pandora’s box open, that becomes impossible,” Perlstein said.
Republicans helped Trump unleash countless civic evils. They shouldn’t be surprised when those evils don’t spare them.
This is exactly what Trump and his sycophants are trying to achieve, although as SLX points out, Trump's mendacity is outweighed only by his utter lack of competence — Wayfarer
Trump has had an instinctive ability to tap into a certain anti-establishment mindset and manipulate it to his advantage. — Baden
He's not playing 4D chess, so much as 1D checkers. — Baden
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Trump is a realist. That is his gift. He's dealing with the world the way it really is. — Hippyhead
It's quite sad that being "big" in the way Trump is (defrauding supporters, bullying politicians, attracting media attention) is something you find admirable and desirable and makes you feel like a "little" person. — Baden
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