goatpairie....I'll agree, many members of the party other than Trump are less than perfect. Nevertheless, I think Trump has thrown the party off the rails.
I still believe we had a great chance in 2016 to win the WH for the next 12-16 years.
We blew it by selecting Trump. He did some positive things
Trump has done no such thing. The man has been fighting almost alone for four years while the chickensh*t worthless Republicans have done little to nothing. What a crock of bullsh*t! He breathed life into a spineless party with not one leader of note, evidenced by the fact that he took on 16 challengers, and he best every last one of them in the primary. Bush with his $100 million war chest managed to garner 1% of the vote. There is not one contender against Trump that would have beat HR Clinton. Not one. Not Bush, not Cruz, not any of them.
Donald Trump defined the issues in 2016. He owned them and he energized the Republican Party like perhaps no one before him. I do not even think Reagan brought the level of enthusiasm that Trump did. And to refresh your memory, Reagan was also vilified by the stinking corrupt media when he was POTUS.
The Republicans would NOT have won against Clinton, and as it was, Trump barely won. You cannot go by the Electoral Vote as a gauge. You need to look at the battleground states to see how narrow the win was.
Trump's failure in 2020 was that he did not campaign like he did in 2016. I never heard him talk about what his plan for the next four years would be and how he planned to make it happen. Through the first quarter of 2020, the stinking Democommies were attempting to impeach him, and bury him any way they could. Every other day was one more person in the White House shooting their mouth off about something they did not like.
Trump got more done in four years than any other president in my life, even those with eight years in the position. And he did it with a hostile Congress, both parties. And a hostile staff. Generals Kelly and Mattis were huge mistakes, as were so many others. It is no mystery that Trump could not find people to trust right from the start, and that is a huge reason he had his family about him.
Never having lived with politics on the inside, he did not have a sense of just how rotten almost every last one of them are. Politics has some of the worst people within humanity. Dishonest, no integrity, self centered, completely corrupt, you name it. I think the Dems are really pushing their luck. The American people only tolerate abuse for so long. They are getting ready to thrust America into a slave state. A few false steps, and they will know exactly what rebellion is, and none of them will live to mouth off about it. We are not at war, yet. But they must know they are pushing it!!!
Back to your foolish comment of winning for the next 12-16 years. What poppycock. You live one election at a time, and beyond that, it is an absolute unknown. Who the hell would have run in 2028 or 2032? You have no idea, and the Republicans were just as void as the Dems. Really!!! HR Clinton was no prize, or Sanders, a damn communist. Trump rose up because Americans were tired of NOT BEING REPRESENTED IN WASHINGTON.
I was from PA. You think Casey or Toomey is anything worth bragging about? Hell no!!! You think Rick Santorum, who bragged he came in 2nd in the one presidential election had a chance to win? He was beat by Casey for the senate. Neither party had crap for leaders. Trump was a shining star. Still is. He has his faults, but you knew he was for America. You think Traitor Joe will be doing things for America? Hell no!!
We are headed for dark times. Biden will wither like a dried out flower, and he will fall apart daily from the stress of it all. I give him one year.
