From 2016 on every election is the most important election since the Founding. We are not the Republic of the 19th century. Too many city people with no concept of independence. The Republic is dead. We are currently fighting over the corpse. That makes every election paramount. Unfortunately we only have to lose one because, thus far, there is no indication that the Right is ready or inclined to Take Command which is the future of the nation. Any taking of power by election by the Left, be they Progressives or Stalinists, will now be the final peaceful election. We have been voting effectively for the candidate from Our Tribe since the turn of the century. At some point in the near future, maybe the very near future, Our Guy has to be Caesar or the Communists will take permanent control. We have several historical precedents to inform us of how things go after that. The choice will be, perhaps in my lifetime(I am 72), between our Maximum Leader and their NeoStalin. When we get the Stalin it is over. Perhaps Donald Trump can buy us some time. I don't see it happening because with this great economy the voters stop worrying about their paychecks and start voting on good hair and feel-good issues, i.e. for communists and yes, they are communists now. There is not much pretense when they call themselves Democratic Socialists.
I am not advocating this stuff because it is the end whichever way it goes. At least with a Rightist ruler we avoid the gulag and the show trials and some prosperity will continue for a time. When you have to depend on the Leader, though, that first one may be salvation but there will inevitably come the incompetents and the sadists and the fools.I hope it can be put off for a couple of decades.