Posted on 08/06/2019 5:52:22 PM PDT by chrisser
Hello fellow FReepers. Don't post much these days but I lurk a lot. Haven't seen a thread on this topic - if I've missed it, then a link would be appreciated and/or I'll ask the mods to delete this.
Like many of you, I'm a big fan of the President and all he's accomplished. I hope his second term is even better. Having hope for the (near) future is a pleasant change from previous administrations.
Sadly, Trump is just one man, and he has formidable and powerful forces stacked against him. I have no doubt he will continue to surprise us, but at the end of next year, or at the end of the next five years, we'll see the end of the Trump era.
I've been pondering what Post Trump America is going to look like and frankly, the more I think about it, the more it fills me with dread.
I'm in my early 50s and facing the certain future of my wits and my strength fading just as we reach a time that I think may be a very dangerous one, at least for those of us who fall into the "normals" category - straight, white, traditional, rational and conservative.
What do you expect our country to look like after PJT has left office?
What are you doing or thinking of doing to prepare for that future?
Once the wall is built, they will all be deported.
From your post to God’s ears...
Let’s not worry about a “post-Trump” America, let’s make sure we keep the Trump-America as long as we can, by supporting him and helping to reelect him, to give him and us a chance to “Make America Great Again”.
Sadly, I expect that the far left will take office once Trump leaves. This is for the following reasons: 1) the normal rotation of the presidency is every eight years the parties change; Old Bush was an exception due to Reagan’s popularity but he proceeded to throw it all away and gave us Clinton; 2) they will ensure they will never lose another election by packing the courts, bringing in untold numbers of illegals, taxing anyone who works to high heaven and doing a very successful job of stirring up racial hate and envy. What do WE do? My guess would be to get rid of coastal California, Oregon and Washington; toss out New York City and northeastern NJ, but not Upstate NY and 90 percent of the Garden State. I don’t know how this would work but I do know the situation will rapidly become intolerable. What will I do? Move to a solid Red state, buy a lot of land, grow vegetables and raise animals and hopefully the leftists don’t pull a locust-type invasion with property confiscation.
Trump will help change a lot of attitudes for the better, permanently. This will mean worse things for Dems than others.
After his second term it will depend on who we elect to follow him. They will have big shoes to fill.
I tend to think the smart global elite move would be to not cause any big waves, just keep everything steadily and slowly sliding down the cultural slope like it has been for the last 100 years or so. Don’t do any one outrageous thing that causes anyone to risk what they have to fight about it. I mean so far it seems to working, right?
Freegards
Just remember that we do have a say in the matter and it’s up to us that after making America great, it will stay that way.
No I think that after this president leaves office we will move toward civil war. Both sides don’t appear to want to compromise. One side will push their agenda to far and the opposite side will react . Civil War we’ll come.
Your synopsis is pretty close to what I expect.
We moved to a red state on some land under the previous administration. Speaking from experience, it takes a lot of time and a lot of resources to get to a point where you’re even close to self sufficient in a way that can keep you isolated from any troubles in the cities. I’m not sure we’ll get there even after a decade has passed, although we’ll be a lot closer by the time Trump is out of office. I’ve starting to think more in terms of 5 and 10 year chunks in terms of planning, because that’s how long it takes for people with jobs and responsibilities to actually accomplish anything substantial in my experience. Likely it’s going to get more difficult with age.
[[[There will be no Democrats in post Trump America.]]]
The GOP is dead too as we know it.
Put up another establishment cuck and they will never win another election again. There is no going back. A milquetoast establishment type is out.
It’s gonna be even uglier, I’m afraid. The left is officially unhinged.
Civil war has been something I’ve thought about as well. I’ve studied the last one a bit to try and learn from it, although I doubt the next will be nearly as pleasant.
We’re in rural WV now, and other than a few skirmishes, the last CW pretty much bypassed this part of the country. Not sure if there’s hope for that next time around. Like last time, the terrain is something of a defense at least to a degree. Wouldn’t stop a determined modern military force, but anyone who wants to come in and do us harm isn’t going to have any easy time of it.
Sounds like being on the slow road to Venezuela. I’m not sure that’s too far from inaccurate.
Thanks for your positive comment. It’s easy to forget just how great a country this is and that we still have many fellow patriots among us.
too far from inaccurate.=>too far from accurate.
“After his second term it will depend on who we elect to follow him. They will have big shoes to fill.”
There will never be another Trump. The only person I can think of who might be a really good next president is Rick Scott. Certainly not Mike Pence. He would be more like W than Trump.
My quick response is that there is always a pendulum swing to the other side, and there will be here too. And there is one generation at least who needs some kind of lesson on how socialism doesn’t fit human nature. It only works on paper or in the utopian dreams of imaginative students. And we the People can survive it.
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