Nothing that gets broken is going to be able to be fixed very quickly either. Does everybody just forget that eight years under the democrats hasn't fully clawed back all of the shit America got under your last bout of Republican rule? Because all I'm hearing is "hey, if we let them be stupid, everything will get rolled back pretty fast once the end is reached," and no. No, things will not be unbroken fast. It will take years to unbreak things that Trump will break, and it will be a fight the whole way.
I realize we're all pretty tired of having our rights taken away, but maybe don't shoot America in the head, and hope that the ambulance can get to the hospital fast enough to save it? Or maybe make another country the biggest super power in the world before you ruin yours. TIA.
The flaw in your thought here is thinking that the Democrats are even trying to claw back anything from the Republicans. They aren't. They're all about it and have done more in that vein, as they will continue to. If anybody besides Donald Trump or Bernie Sanders becomes president, the future state of freedom will be more national security and ihre Papiere bitte.
That is why a cascading collapse of the existing political establishment is a good thing. We can essentially only have a risk of success with Operation Moran Eater.
I don't see it really happening that way though. Trump will idiot, but you haven't addressed the fact that this leaves a Republican Congress+Senate intact, and likely with the Vice President in a position to take power. It's not going to crash the system. There will be no eating of the morans.
Because the President is the political barometer of America and the way they act has massive consequences. Even politically savvy presidents usually end up with a problem or two (Iran-Contra, Read my lips no new taxes, I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Mission Accomplished, Benghazi). They have usually spent decades learning to play the game and avoid the easier pitfalls of failure.
Donald Trump has not. Now, normally that might just be a little trouble, but it's Donald Trump. The man oozes concentrated pride and passion. He won't just make a little mistake, he'll make big, history-books-will-use-them-as-primary-examples-for-the-next-two-centuries big mistakes.
As for Congress, they haven't gotten shit done well for a decade now. I am a bit less than worried about their actions. Frankly, 9/10ths of the worst things Congress does are backed by the Democrats as well, so it's irrelevant. Donald will leave them hamstrung between trying to back their party's president and trying not to go down with the sinking ship anyway.
I have no doubt in my mind that Donald Trump will rapidly and reliably generate incidents that make Watergate look tiny, and the primary way that will happen will be by his misuse of the existing security state. These shocking failures are absolutely necessary in an America that doesn't regularly elect people like Sanders, so that we can break out of the pattern of acceptance.
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