So what’s next?

[Benton]

(06-04-2020, 03:48 PM)samhain Wrote: Well, after watching the country rage for more than a week, I feel fairly comfortable postulating that his refusal to leave combined with a partisan legislature refusing to remove him and install a democratically elected candidate would result in unrest like we've never seen.  The majority of people in this country didn't want him as president anyway, and even fewer want him now.  Throw in an economy that's reeling with no help in site for the poor and middle class, and you're going to have plenty of really pissed off people by November.

If he held on to power in such a way, this country is finished in one way or the other.  The experiment is over.  Going back to normal wouldn't be a thing, and violence would become a way of life here like it's never been, which is saying something for this country.

I honestly (and I feel bad about it) agree with what Ann Coulter said a week or two ago.  His actions will cause the Republican Party harm on a level that no major party has experienced here.  Any member of Congress or the Senate that is complicit with him will suffer major electoral consequences in any part of the nation that isn't the Southeast.  If he continues on his current path, he will usher in an era of liberal control (outside of SCOTUS) that will stand for a decade.  Liberals did not make this scenario so.  Trump and his supporters did.  

To the last graf, I think that will be what ultimately happens. How soon depends on the election and how it plays out. But end of the day, I think there will be a schism in good voters. It won't really be a surprise as there's always been one in the marriage of (mostly lower income) conservatives and capitalists. It was strange bedfellows to begin with, but the capitalists held on by promising conservatives their utopia. Oddly, the most pro capitalist candidate in decades has more support from the conservative aspect, which I think will either split or just not show up in elections for a long time after trump is either defeated or abandoned them.