The Dems cannot get organized and have 23 or more running. They also need to come out strongly and appear on Fox News, then also call Trump's China tariffs (that America will pay for) the "Trump Tax." Why not? Trump makes up things and so do most of the GOP. Call this tariff and others the "Trump Tax." That might get through to a few people.

Not everyone can see it. A man at my work got so riled on this that he had to excuse himself and leave the building because of his "great desire to do me physical harm." His stand is that this is Trump's way of bringing jobs back to America. The higher prices will cause us to pay so much money that manufacturing will be taken up again in our country at a profit. What a crock! What utter nonsense!

I cannot respond to each of you individually but I wanted to thank everybody for the rational discussion of the issues.
I knew this post would be unpopular on this site, for the most part people have not resorted to name-calling or typing in all-caps to .
it is far too soon to tell and I look forward to the plot thickening over the next 18 months

I tend to disagree with the idea he will win in 2020. In 2016, he got a lto of independent voters who wer tired of regular politics, ande thought they'd give him the benefit of a doubt. I doubt that msot independents who voted for him in 2016 woudl do so again... now that they know what he is really like.

Granted Trump has about 35-35% of loyal single issue voters, but that isnt' enough to get him a win especially when he lost the poplar vote in 2016. The left has about 30-35% of loyal voters too, even if they are not quite so vocal.

In any case, it is still an entire year before the primaries even start. A lot cna happen between ow and then. It looks liek Trump may start a war with Iran. Johnson would tto have been able to win re-election due to an unpopular war. Trump will fce at lest once challenger in the primaries. A lot can happen in a year.

Anyone who supports Trumpism is a racist, bigot or hater at heart. Feel sorry for them.

Not saying yay or nay on this one, but I do admire your optimism. To your points, as listed:

1. The NRA contributed $30M, much of which from Russian sources (laundering?), but the organization is currently in a civil war, so it's unlikely they'll be able to donate as "bigly" in this next election. Trump couldn't care less about gun rights. As with so many politicians, he'll say whatever he thinks his audience want to hear to get their vote.
2. As PT Barnum famously stated, "There's a sucker born every minute." And no group is quite as eager to demonstrate this as evangelicals. The fact that Trump isn't an xtian doesn't deter them in the least. He speaks to their fervor and they pay him in adulation. The more his actions and policies suggest to them that he's delivering them ever closer to rapture, the more intense the cycle becomes.
3. The very name Nazi is derivative of nationalist, not that Trump seems to mind, as he steers the country in a similar directions with so much support from white supremacist groups.
4. Right to Life is completely bunk. The bulk of those who claim support for it have so problem with state executions, unaffordable healthcare, or low quality of life, and by all appearances favor the rapist over the victim.
5. The xenophobes operate largely on circular arguments and stoked fear. There are more threats from domestic terrorism and gun deaths that international terror threats, but hey, brown skin's easy to identify and it's just easy to target someone who speaks other languages, while some citizens struggle with the grammar of their native tongue.

As for Trump claiming victory, of course he will, deservingly or otherwise. Where he can't, or thinks he can pull it off - well, there's always Clinton & Obama.
And your "red scare"? Are you at all concerned by his constant capitulation to Putin or the trade war with China that has the US borrowing from China to give money to the farmers to offset their losses from the trade war with China? How about the way he cozies up with leaders of communists and despots, like Erdogan, Kim, and Dutuerte, while distancing us from long-established, stable relationships?

You make it sound like a done deal, but then, that's how a lot of people felt about the last presidential election.

Yes, you are right, the GOP is pretty simple minded.

1. The proliferation of Ar-15s is insane
   2)The religious right are simple minded, per definition
2. We need patriotism not, nationalism
3. like forcing an 11 year old girl to carry a baby to term, she was raped
4. This country was built by immigrants not xenophobia

Disagree with almost all your empty rhetoric