With all due respect long term Freeper you...
Politics isn’t permanent. In 2-4 yrs the Dems will be back with a transformation.
Whether it is 2 or 4 depends on how suicidal they get between now and inauguration.
Ever since the counting Chad crap, Florida has gone red more than not. After the crap pulled in Wisconsin, PA and Michigan....?
Bush the elder and G.W., were not the type of men to change things up. They went along to get along. There was no new breathtaking change of direction. They didn't contrast good with bad, the wayward Leftist with tried and true Conservative principles. We drifted under them.
Trump has come along and heralded Conservatism. Not he hasn't done it by name, but the principles are there. He's contrasting good policy against the bad. We are witnessing a sea change in politics.
Unlike those two louts I just mentioned, Trump is addressing a broad spectrum of Leftist goals, tactics, and institutions. He's leaving no stone unturned.
The Left is irate because they recognize this. It isn't just political, it's ideological to the max. He is going to rip them to shreds.
Right now the Left is doing self-assessment. They are looking at what happened to the party in 1972, and how far they have gone down the Rabbit Hole since.
In short the Governer's are 33 to 15 Republican. Republicans have 25 veto proof states, absolute control. The Democrats have 6 veto proof states, absolute control. Look at these figurs: (a href="http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3495919/posts">LINK
Democrats are having to come to terms with what they have done to themselves. They can continue on in their present direction and alienate themselves further, or they can come back toward the center and compete on more solid ground.
If they continue on Left, they will marginalize themselves right out of existence. If they move right, the Republicans still win, for the same reason nobody votes for Leftist Republicans. If you want the real Leftist, vote for one. If you want the real Conservative, you vote for one. You don't vote for a pretender.
As Trump moves though this next four years and tried and true political decisions are proven to move the nation forward again, the Democrats won't have a chance in 2020.
I predict it's 2024, before they have a remote chance, and then the public will vote for Pence to continue Trump's achievements. This means that in all likelihood, it's 2032 before the Democrats have a chance again.
If Pence proves to be half the guy I think he is, the nation will want more of the same, not a break from success.
As this moves forward, legislatures move farther Right, not Left.
The Democrats have only one chance. If they were to go full tilt Right and try to out Right Conservatism, they could make headway. If they did, who would have won? The nation would have.
The Democrat party is dead in the water right now.