The second he’s thrown out of office is the second he’s forgotten. The whole world knows it. They just hit the “snooze” button as far as America is concerned. All he’s doing is fucking America over for a quick money grab, just as Putin instructed.
I'm not so convinced. USA is rising out of a recession. Idiot Americans might think that this rise has to do with Trump.
They already do, but then, they’re idiots.
In which case he'll get re-elected.
Not a chance. Think what it took for him to get elected in the first place. And now that we’ve taken the House, no matter what blather the right tries (as they always try) they more than any of us respond in a binary fashion to losing. It’s just hard wired in them.
Worse for them is the fact that the reason they were able to retain the Senate was because the Dems faced so many challenges to their seats, while the Repugs only had to defend against a handful of challenges. That flips in 2020.
And, of course, they cheat, which has already been noted in Texas and Georgia and I’m sure more will come out in the Senate races Trump focused on knowing he’d lose the House. Plus, even if they didn’t cheat in Florida (which is a certainty that they did), it
could go to a recount, with only a 34,000 vote differential (0.4%). Trump took Florida by 1.2%, which doesn’t seem like much, but the fact that it went down and not up with his presidency is a strong indicator against him for 2020 there and that’s without everything that is about to hit the fan from Mueller.
Likewise with O’Rourke in Texas, only in much starker relief. Trump beat Clinton by
9 points in Texas; incumbent Cruz only skated by with 2.6 points against an unapologetically progressive relative newcomer to the national stage and potential 2020 contender for the DNC. Not only was it an impressive test-run for Beto, but it was also a big fuck you to Trump, in spite of it nevertheless still going to Cruz.
Plus there are the facts that two prominent new voting elements have emerged; Women and “suburbans,” while all Trump had to rely on (once again) were older white guys living in rural districts. Iow, the same that already gave him the sliver to get the EC (only this time, not in the same places). So to bring them out in large enough numbers to give him a second term he’d have to reinstate 1950 for them in regard to rural jobs/manufacturing, which just ain’t going to happen.