Like you suggest, one of their long term strategies worked almost too well and apparently they forgot they rode it so hard in the past. Gerrymandering. Notice how the Dems gained huge ground from a democratic voting standpoint by gaining the presidency and nearly evening the senate, but the gerrymandered house districts had a wild swing toward red. I assume the Republican voters simply didn't turn out in 2018 because clearly when they have historically high turnout their gerrymandering heavily favors them which was the point of it. This could be a problem in the future because if Republicans can maintain that voter turnout momentum for 2022 then Dems may be in house trouble once more.
Having the power to influence thought should not give the newspapers carte blanche to lie:
They go on to bolster this with:
"But madness of that sort was far from uncommon in Europe’s royal families, not least because of the inbreeding favoured by their convention that members of a royal family could not marry beneath their station. As H.C. Erik Midelfort explains in his entertaining 1996 monograph Mad Princes of Renaissance Germany, in 16th-century Germany nearly 30 dukes, landgraves and counts were regarded by their courts and ministers as mad enough to require medical attention or removal from office. But what exactly was meant by “mad”? Midelfort explains that advisers and family members spoke of “weakness, folly, debility, and the condition of not being right,” or sometimes “furor, or melancholy, or sickness” when they encountered princes who seemed to be mentally unsuited to rule. The notion of clinical insanity or certifiable madness is one that only became current in the 19th century."
My advice to the Toronto Star is that they should sell the business and buy some hot dog vending carts - do a better service to the hoi polloi in downtown Toronto. At least serve the workers who are battling the opioid crises there. Don't waste my time if I am to take you literally.
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Or simply unimpeached matters, aka everything else he probably did. He could just pardon himself for all crimes except those for which he's been impeached.
I'm pretty sure you are, it's just that the small groups of extremists out there are so tremendously loud that they seem scarier than they are. And my "small groups" I mean there are literally millions of them but whatever. Speaking of which, I saw a Trumpchode driving a Tahoe (blacked out, loud pipes, etc) with flags a-waving driving through the suburbs the other day, looking like an absolute tool, advertising to everyone around him that he's disrespectful, temperamental, untrustworthy, arguably unemployable, definitely armed, and wholly delusional. I don't doubt that the FBI know's the driver's name, and it wouldn't surprise me to hear on the news that they made a terrible decision in a Walmart parking lot.
And it's worth noting that in the eyes of Trump, he's never genuinely "lost" at anything significant in his life. Losing reelection would be his first, and I think that Trump's ego and narcissistic image of being incapable of losing would make it so that he is incapable of coping from this normally.
Yup. The irony is, Trump and his following will most likely be acting as if whatever neoliberal centrist policies the Biden administration is pushing for is like the second coming of the Bolshevik revolution, or "turning America into Venezuela".
You think? I hope you're right, but 89% of Republicans continuing to "approve" of Trump after the post-election shenanigans doesn't sound like a small number & if only 6% silent supporters "rolled their flags down quietly" - that's not particularly re-assuring.
