I think it more likely than not the Republican Party will collapse under the weight of corruption
Not a total collapse, we will never be so lucky, but maybe just maybe we will have the Presidency, the House, and 60 seats in the Senate after the 2020 elections. That is super majority territory, and that is what is needed to start reversing all of the damage that Republicans have caused this nation. Another blue wave that big is a tall order indeed. The Senate will be hard to win a super majority in. With even the smallest rural states getting the same number of Senators allotted to them as California, New York or Illinois receives, the radical polarizing of the electorate in recent years means Republicans just have to hold on to their core base to keep at least 41 Senate seats in GOP hands. I don't think Republicans will pull it off.
Sure they will hold on to the strong majority of their current base, but I believe they will suffer enough defections to put some Southern Senate seats in play, and even seats in states like Kansas and Iowa are not beyond reach. Based on a political snapshot taken today, the odds are slim that Democrats could reach the 60 Senate seat mark by 2020. But politics have rarely been as unstable in a hundred years as they are today. While the situation is not entirely analogous, Nixon won reelection in 1972 losing only Massachusetts and the District of Columbia. Two years later he was out of office. And Democrats swept to power in 2016.
Once it seemed like the Mueller probe would expose Donald Trump for the corrupt fraud that he is. Now it increasingly looks like a plethora of major Republican figures will be implicated also. This will be hugely damning. Pay to play politics is bringing ruin onto rural America. The Republicans have over played their hand, thinking social hot bottom issues and pure racism can insulate them from any real blow back. But the income tax cut scam is starting to unravel. Their nearly decade long push to abolish Obamacare continues to blow up in Republican faces. And, in myriad ways, moves like deregulating payday loan charlatans will begin to pile up on their backs. And this is all before the proverbial shit hits the fan and it becomes abundantly clear to almost all who the Republican Party chiefly serves, and it isn't the American people.
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... it's the fascists, racists and Libertarians who are causing all the problems these days. They should have never been allowed to take over the Republican Party, but that's water over the dam.
I hope you're onto something Tom Rinaldo!
