At least they weren't from the Jawa Witnesses

Back when politics weren't boys playing with toys. Or bullsh!t.

The odds are pretty close that he'll either resign or be impeached before the end of this term. Discussed it with one of my contacts in the field, and he told me to check the bookmakers odds. 10/11 impeachment or resign. I don't think he'll get impeached before the 2018 election, but I see a major turnover in Congress that would open the door to impeachment. I don't think he'll resign and quietly go away, either. He strikes me as the type that will be more than happy to take the party down with him.

Generally, the GOP carries about 23% of the registered voters. Usually, the DNC has about 30%. After Nixon resigned, the number of Registered Democrats ballooned to 70%+. By 1980, it returned to normal.

Yeah, after all Trump isn't in it for the country our the party but for himself. This is the ultimate ego stroke. I just want to see him get humiliated and lessen the chances of this stupidity with another demagogue. He'll pull the GOP down with him if necessary. My greatest fear is that he'll last until 2020 and convince enough of the undereducated to stick with him so that if the election is close again he'll just claim 'illegal voters' and declare himself the president. Or even if it isn't close; the self-agrandizement is so powerful that he'll try to stay in office at all costs.

As for Congress the issue is that the GOP is a lousy national party but very good at the state level. They can win governorships and state legislatures and since that's who determines House of Representatives districts the Republicans can gerrymander at will in many areas which makes it hard for a majority party like the Democrats to gain the house. That and the fact that low-population red states like Wyoming have the same number senators as populous blue states like California. Mostly the problem is the outmoded electoral college allowing minority-opinion voters having an outsized effect on the election of the presidency. Trump appealed to the prejudices of blue collar Democrats in midwestern states to win. Sad to say, but the best thing that could happen, should Trump make it to 2020, is that there is a recession that affects those particular voters in a way that they turn against him. It sounds cold, but it's not just the way of life of a few workers to worry about but the position of the United States in the world. Will we be a strong country in a democratizing world like in the past or will we be a weakened country in a world becoming more authoritarian?

With what's going down right now, Democratic voters, as well as independents, will come out in force in 2018 if the state and national level candidates point to the problems that are currently in place and will get worse by 2018 election day. It'll happen, bit everyone that wants Trump out will have to work hard. Peaceful demonstrations are a joke. They'll just hire some roughnecks to incite riots and disappear like they've always done.

Let's hope. (About the elections, not the riots.)

Amen to that.