How do we turn the country around?

STANV said:
 
My fear is that there is enough of an authoritarian tendency among Trump and his advisers and supporters That if he is re-elected in 2020 there may not be an election in 2024. 
Trump accuses his opponents of "Treason". What prevents him from ordering the Dem House leadership, like Schiff or Nadler, arrested? He is "stonewalling" the House. With control of the Senate he may be able to ignore the House entirely or call the election of Dems to the House fraudulent and illegitimate.
I see a strong possibility of serious civil strife and possibly violence.

 If we get Trump out in 2020 it will happen because enough Trump voters like some of the ones many of us know will have quietly grown tired of the drama. I'm guessing he's scared enough women out there that their right to chose will disappear. I'm thinking that his trade wars will anger many of the free traders from his own party. I'm suspecting that those who really thought we were sending our youth into too many stupid wars will be sick of his international threats. I'm waiting to see how many of those who wanted that wall will consider him a failure. I'm betting that all of those people who believed he would bring back their jobs but didn't will decide that he is a fraud. And most of all I'm willing to hope that the vast majority of Americans will admit, that after all, we are better than this.

Morganna said:
I'm betting that all of those people who believed he would bring back their jobs but didn't will decide that he is a fraud.

 That, I'm afraid, is a very, very bad bet.

Speaking of being afraid, Liz is back in the news. Yup, fresh from a few weeks of mandatory residence in the outland of Wyoming, where she probably won House election by a 250 to 235-vote margin (not many people there), she's now being encouraged to run for Senate. Why not hop on the "treason" bandwagon!

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Rep. Liz Cheney (Wyo.), the third-ranking Republican in the House, dangerously claimed FBI officials who launched the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election could be guilty of committing treason.

During an interview Sunday that likely appealed to President Donald Trump, Cheney pointed to Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, two FBI staffers who sent text messages disparaging Trump, to claim the bureau’s entire investigation was predicated on political motivations.

HuffPost

Reminds me of this classic exchange from Dog Day Afternoon:

Sonny: So what country do you want to go to?

Sal: Wyoming.

Sonny: Sal, Wyoming's not a country.

Liz Cheney - Now there is a "defective human product".

drummerboy said:
Liz Cheney - Now there is a "defective human product".

 Considering who her father is, she's exactly what we should expect her to be.  

Red_Barchetta said:

drummerboy said:
Liz Cheney - Now there is a "defective human product".

 Considering who her father is, she's exactly what we should expect her to be.  

 Has it now been long enough that we can talk about who John McCain really was as a politician?

Fine with me.   I’m annoyed by Meghan’s holier than thou response to Klobuchar’s recent comments about what McCain said to her during Trump inauguration.   

Fire away.  

Red_Barchetta said:
Fine with me.   I’m annoyed by Meghan’s holier than thou response to Klobuchar’s recent comments about what McCain said to her during Trump inauguration.   


Fire away.  

 I was ready the day he passed.  Others wanted to put a softer lens on things.

Klinker said:
 I was ready the day he passed.  Others wanted to put a softer lens on things.

 I started a thread after his death for honest comments about him. 

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