zinfamous
No Lifer
- Jul 12, 2006
- 110,806
- 29,557
- 146
The sad thing is, the American right wing has been building up this "we're entitled to rule" mindset for a while. I believe it started after 9/11, when the right was convinced that only they could fight terrorism, and was made worse over time. A so-so 2004 Democrat campaign and Karl Rove fearmongering gave Bush Jr. a second term that reinforced the notion the Republicans were meant to lead... and of course, when the Republicans lost in 2008 to a black man with a foreign-sounding name, supporters lost their everloving minds. It was easy for Fox News, Limbaugh and others to portray Obama as some kind of horrible outside usurper, and the GOP fed into that by openly declaring their policy as "whatever Obama is for, we're against." The result: millions of people who believe that Republican rule was 'stolen' from them.
So when Obama's term is up and the Republican candidate is someone who both spent years pandering to that Obama-is-an-outsider myth and indulges all the right's wet dream fantasies (brown people are to blame for all your problems! Climate change isn't real!)... well, they flock to him in droves. If Trump is removed before 2020, you'll get a vicious backlash because his supporters see him as restoring the 'natural' order of things... that is, an eternal Republican dictatorship.
Agreed, and that's why I think Pence needs to remain. Half of these people compromised their souls simply because of Pence: he is the real God, Trump is the anti-christ. Trump was given to us by god to cleanse this country (burn it down), so that the true Christ, Pence, can redeem us.
These people...actually. believe. this.
This is why Pence needs to remain. ...now, I doubt that he would be reasonable, it is dubious to assume that he would manage to rationalize these people back to reality, because he is just as insane, but something tells me that the ouster of a POTUS within their first term would be a large enough shockwave...hopefully...to startle the GOP and the new administration back into coherence. well, maybe. Either way, they will be a lame duck party. If this drags out through 2018 (which it will), the mid-terms will very likely remove any pretense of GOP power for quite some time.
This long, tiring, experiment of minority rule in the USA has sickened everyone, and it can't be allowed to happen again....of course I could be wrong. It could be that these people are far, far sicker than anyone wants to imagine. It is possible that the diseased souls of Ryan and McConnell will continue to stroke the fantasies of their most righteous base..."if only you give us enough time to destroy your livelihoods, for our gain! please, just one more election!"