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2020 Democratic Presidential Nominees

Alas this sounds about right to me. Serious q: should he win what would happen at end of his second term? Do we really think there will be a peaceful exchange of power (a hallmark of any modern democracy)? They’ve crossed a million lines once thought sacrosanct, but that would be something else...

Highland Deac said:
As long as the economy stays good it's going to be very tough for any Democrat to beat Trump, at least in the electoral vote, imo. He's got a massive war chest, powerful propaganda organs in Fox News, Fox Business, Breitbart, Facebook, etc., and a base that will work overtime to get him another term. I don't see him taking VA, but Florida is a real possibility as he won it last time, and the 2018 FL Senate and Governor elections (both Democrats were ahead in the polls right up to election day, I believe) have left me pessimistic about the Dem's chances there. I still think Trump will lose the national popular vote again, possibly by even more than last time. But currently he's got a real edge in the Electoral College, and it's going to be hard for any Democratic candidate to beat him - not impossible, and he's definitely vulnerable, but anyone who thinks beating Trump will or should be easy is fooling themselves.
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Henry Chinaski said:
Alas this sounds about right to me. Serious q: should he win what would happen at end of his second term? Do we really think there will be a peaceful exchange of power (a hallmark of any modern democracy)? They’ve crossed a million lines once thought sacrosanct, but that would be something else...
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He’ll be like 80 and eats like a 15 year old. He’ll stroke out and die before the end of his second term. That’s what old rich white dudes do. They die.
 
Henry Chinaski said:
Alas this sounds about right to me. Serious q: should he win what would happen at end of his second term? Do we really think there will be a peaceful exchange of power (a hallmark of any modern democracy)? They’ve crossed a million lines once thought sacrosanct, but that would be something else...
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Why not?
 
Highland Deac said:
We're talking about people - Trump's base - who firmly controlled every branch of the federal government from 2017 to 2019 and dominated state governorships and legislatures, and yet they still portrayed themselves as victims who were under siege by The Swamp and an overbearing librul establishment. If the worst nightmares of liberals came true and Trump was reelected in November, the GOP retook the House and kept the Senate, the Democrats virtually collapsed and could offer no effective political opposition, the GOP added 1 or 2 more justices to the Supreme Court, and the Court overturned Roe v. Wade and other progressive landmark rulings, I have little doubt that these people would still see themselves as persecuted victims of an overbearing liberal elite. They literally look for reasons to be pissed and victimized, and are the original snowflakes. They seem to see themselves as the last bulwark of decency in a sick and decadent world that is arrayed against them, and they will not be swayed from that view. Political defeats only make them angrier and more paranoid, and while victories give them a chance to gloat and taunt any liberals they know (or don't know on social media), it doesn't seem to sway their victim complex at all.
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Pretty much.

And that narrative plays well among traditional/conservative Christian and southern cultures.
 
Dem voters continue to push minorities and POC out of the primary field:

 
if he doesn't get a VP slot, I wonder if Castro would go back to HUD should a Democrat win the presidency
 
Republicans are actively pushing people whose names end in “z” off voter rolls but they think Dems are pushing out minority candidates.

Castro should run against Cruz in 2024.
 
I think Adams may be more likely than Harris due to CA being "LOCK" and GA (hopefully RACIOST, immoral cutting of voter rolls will be overturned) getting into play. She had about ten years in GA Assembly, TREMENDOUS legal background and stands bigly for what she believes.
 
So the donald talks about his daughter in... glowing... terms and don jr dates women that look like his father's current wife. Sounds about right for this crowd.
 
deaconson said:
So the donald talks about his daughter in... glowing... terms and don jr dates women that look like his father's current wife. Sounds about right for this crowd.
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Jr's date looks older than Melania...
 
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