POTUS/General Election Thread 2020 + Aftermath

[Montmorency]

We are lucky that Trump is too stupid and narcissistic to realize that excessively alienating the Armed Forces, state intelligence, and one's own quasi-Praetorians is not conducive to securing one's enduring power in office.

The only security forces Trump might be popular with are disparate swathes of local police - over whom Trump has no jurisdiction - and the Department of Homeland Security (e.g. ICE) jackboots, of whom there are only thousands.

The second amendment-maxers have broadly not had any issues with gun control so they're happy.

Hehehehehe

“I like taking the guns early, like in this crazy man’s case that just took place in Florida ... to go to court would have taken a long time,” Trump said at a meeting with lawmakers on school safety and gun violence.

“Take the guns first, go through due process second,” Trump said.

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Imagine those words attributed to Obama - who didn't really take any action, such as was within executive authority, against guns.

Each group above might love, despise or be indifferent to Dopey Donnie and don't have to agree with each other either. But they all are very aware that their interests are closest to him than anyone else.

I would say that the pre-existing (since at least Newt Gingrich's Contract with America) Republican consensus that Democrats are illegitimate socialists, the New Deal must be retrenched, wealth and power are more important than country and democracy, etc. has certainly not diminished under Trump. As we can see. Don't underestimate the depth of fanaticism or delusion among Republican officials, not necessarily for Trump's own sake but for the overlapping worldview. Which worldview will persist even if Republicans try to flush Trump down the memory hole next year.