Who’s Going to Be the Next Mondale?

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American Greatness
Michael Walsh
June 19, 2018

For the first time since the election of 1984, the Left is on the run and they don’t like it one bit. Back then, they had been stunned when the ignorant, trigger-happy cowboy Ronald Reagan upset Jimmy Carter in 1980; a man they were absolutely sure had almost no chance to win the presidency instead beat the incumbent rather handily. But they were devastated when Reagan crushed Walter Mondale in 1984 in one of the mightiest popular and electoral landslides in American political history. It just could . . . not . . . be . . . that Reagan won 525 electoral votes to Mondale’s 13, 49 states to Mondale’s one, and 54 million popular votes to Mondale’s 37 million.

Now history seems to be repeating itself. This time, in the election of 2016, they were certain that Donald Trump had less than no chance against the formidable juggernaut of the Dowager Empress of Chappaqua and the Clinton Machine. Where Reagan had been the first divorced man ever to win the presidency, Trump was already on wife No. 3. Whereas Reagan’s qualifications for high office consisted of his two terms as California governor (although everybody was quite sure that, deep down, he was only a B-movie actor), Trump had no qualifications at all. And when Trump put Hillary away mid-evening on election night, the stunned silence was punctuated with weeping, wailing, and the gnashing of Nate Silver’s teeth.

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[Bigun]

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Yet another GREAT find by you!  Kudos!

[WingNot]

Is Fritz still above ground?   I hadn't thought about that old socialist in years.

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Yet another GREAT find by you!  Kudos!

No one is consistently good but Walsh is usually worth the read.

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Is Fritz still above ground?   I hadn't thought about that old socialist in years.

Still Fritzing around at age 90.

[WingNot]

Still Fritzing around at age 90.

Perfect.  Maybe he should run again.  Mondale McCain 2020.   

[Fishrrman]

A little more:
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Now along comes Trump, trashing the toothless Paris climate change “accord,” tearing up the Iran deal, threatening the North American Free Trade Agreement, backing the Chinese off a bit, and frightening Kim Jong-un to the bargaining table in Singapore in order finally to put paid to the Korean War. Moving swiftly, as is his wont, Trump is rapidly delivering on his campaign promises to renegotiate the many bad deals he’s seen prior American leaders make and doesn’t much care what anybody else thinks about it.

In other words, Trump is pushing multiple but related objectives: to put his own stamp on the country as quickly as possible; to repeal in whole or at least in large part, the “legacy” of Barack Obama, including the tentacles of Obamacare; and to single-handedly overcome the effects of every administration since 1988—and in so doing, become the most “conservative” president since Reagan himself.
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With all that said, Mr. Trump won't be able to enjoy a second term win nearly as impressive as was Mr. Reagan's, due to the changes that have overtaken America so swiftly since 1984.

States that were once "competitive" for the Republicans -- such as California -- are no more so and will never be that way again.

New England, along with the mid-Atlantic coast, is also all-but lost to the Republicans for good. As are Oregon and Washington state.

I believe Mr. Trump can win again in 2020.
But it's going to be just as difficult a struggle as was 2016.

Get complacent about it and...  you lose.