Trump says he could be ‘last Republican president’

[u/ushaque]

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/6144713-donald-trump-republican-party-midterm-struggles/amp/

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[u/crashorbit]

Somehow, he is always the victim.

[u/New_Ad3443 → u/crashorbit]

Trump is a manchild with a massive ego to boot. 

[u/BigBananaBerries → u/New_Ad3443]

& a lot of this recent madness is because everyone around him is telling him he can do whatever he wants. That's not a good place when he's already been a narcissistic fool.

[u/chipmunksocute → u/crashorbit]

Rich white men are always the victim didnt you know!?

[u/leviathan65]

People have the memory of a goldfish. He had a horrible first term and tanked the economy. Biden fixed it and had the "envy of the world" after covid. Trump fucked it up again. But people forgot how much he fucked up the first time around. Ridiculous

[u/Ancient_Popcorn → u/leviathan65]

They had to vote for Trump. They couldn’t fathom voting for a woman or another black person, and Kamala was both.

[u/pikachu191 → u/Ancient_Popcorn]

People forgot how unserious they were. When they voted for Biden to fix Trump's mess, they also voted for Republicans in the undercards of congressmen and Senators in that same election. This meant nothing could get done. Republicans were determined to filibuster anything because Democrats didn't have the 60 seats needed to overcome a filibuster. They did everything they could to prevent any accounting for Trump: refusing to participate in the Jan 6 commission, rationalizing every acquittal they made on Trump on technicalities and blaming Democrats. Even as they were cowering in the House chamber on that day with only a handful of Secret Service agents (for then VP Pence's protection) as a last line of defense from the angry MAGA mob.

Manchin and Sinema proved to be opportunists who watered down any Democratic legislation for their own special interests, since Biden had to have their votes to get anything done. Meanwhile Democrats wanted Biden out (there were stories that the establishment never wanted him in the first place), even while admitting he did a good job getting the US to recover from covid-19, but still too old (Bernie Sanders is older, and so is Nancy Pelosi). Biden got mocked for being old and falling off his bike (without breaking any ribs or other bones) and voters decided let's bring back the con artist of a reality TV host who's only 3 years younger and uses a golf cart playing golf (real matches have the competitors walk the entirety of the course).

[u/gtobiast13 → u/pikachu191]

People look at me weird when I say democrats functionally lost 2020 even while winning. 

2020 should have been a blowout election season for dems. Between the botched Covid response, economy problems, general chaos, and mounting legal issues for the Trump admin, any competent opposition should have won the White House and both chambers with a super majority, it should have been the blowout of the century. 

Sure, statistically the electoral college victory was pretty solidly in bidens favor, but somehow, after all of that, 12 million more people came out to vote for Trump than in 2016. By no means was it a landslide in presidential election history. Not to mention, dems spent almost double the amount of campaign money on Biden than Trump got from republicans and they still only won by slim margins. 

On top of that, the senate was effectively “won” by the 1 vote the VP gets. The dems lost 14 seats in the house and just clung to a majority, and dems lost another governor seat giving republicans a 2 seat lead. 

Dems came to fight with a loaded m16 against an opponent bleeding out with a shiv and they still got sliced and diced and won by the slimmest margins. 

I hate saying this but the people really made their voices heard that cycle. They weren’t happy with trump, but they really didn’t want to alter course either. 

[u/100LimeJuice → u/gtobiast13]

Biden's electoral college victory was not pretty solid. As NPR's Domenico Montanaro has put it, "just 44,000 votes in Georgia, Arizona and Wisconsin separated Biden and Trump from a tie in the Electoral College." Source NPR: https://www.npr.org/2020/12/02/940689086/narrow-wins-in-these-key-states-powered-biden-to-the-presidency

[u/Prototype3120 → u/Ancient_Popcorn]

I blame the apathetic non-voters equally to the worst of the Trump voters. I know a few people who didn't vote, despite them claiming to hate Trump, because they didn't see the point. I tried to explain that we know exactly how many people will vote for Trump, his base isn't growing, by not voting you are basically voting for Trump. They called me stupid and said that Trump will lose. I don't talk to them anymore.

[u/_slagwire → u/Ancient_Popcorn]

And also Indian! Having influences from multiple identities and cultures all in one person? Like some kind of melting pot? Inconceivable!

[u/Mobb_Barley → u/_slagwire]

Remember how confused they all were by her biracialness? “She claimed she is black but now she claims she is Indian? WHICH ONE IS IT KAMALA????”

[u/_slagwire → u/Mobb_Barley]

If only JD knew his own children were biracial and could've helped clear up the confusion. But alas, the technology just wasn't there!

[u/Falco98 → u/leviathan65]

Biden fixed it and had the "envy of the world" after covid.

Trump figured out that all he had to do was sit on the sidelines and yell "Biden Grocery Prices!" often enough, that it hoodwinked just enough people, that he was able to scam his way back in. The more frustrating part is how few people recognized the transparent sham that was.

[u/DadJokeBadJoke → u/Falco98]

No president has ever had his predecessor shit-talking him every single day of their presidency. The reason many thought Biden was doing bad was because Trump was saying it day in and day out regardless of how well things were doing.

[u/Falco98 → u/DadJokeBadJoke]

Yup, good ol' "Firehose of Falsehoods", trump's one reliable hat trick...

[u/LegendaryOutlaw → u/leviathan65]

A MILLION Americans died from COVID during his first term. I can't believe his supporters just brush that aside. A MILLION. Most of them lost friends and family members to the pandemic that he massively fucked up...because HE told them not to wear masks, not to heed quarantine and shutdown protocols, and later doubted the efficacy of a vaccine. HE HIMSELF nearly died from it.

He SHOULD be the last republican president. But he won't be, because people are stupid.

[u/MoonBatsRule → u/LegendaryOutlaw]

A MILLION Americans died from COVID during his first term. I can't believe his supporters just brush that aside. A MILLION.

Most Trump supporters do not believe this to be true. They think that the numbers were fake, and that almost nobody died from COVID. Or they think that Fauci unleashed the disease to discredit Trump.

I had relatives who died from COVID. My MAGA relatives think that they merely died with COVID, and that COVID did not contribute to their deaths, because it was more mild than the common cold.

[u/s_i_m_s → u/MoonBatsRule]

Trump himself is on record saying he lied about it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBwwgMj-ewI
@1:38 and @2:15

[u/Froggyevening → u/leviathan65]

I just remember him looking so pathetic telling the J6ers to go home and that "we love you" and I thought "that's it, there's no coming back from that."

I'm stupid.

[u/Azimov3laws → u/Froggyevening]

You're not stupid, you just had the misplaced faith that people aren't inherently selfish and shitty.

[u/Gekokapowco → u/Azimov3laws]

for me, I at least thought the GOP would be more interested in protecting their own power than abiding this unlawful bullshit any longer

little did I know voters would just let them do both, that one senator or podcaster or ex-president could just say "they were FBI plants to make Trump look bad" and that was it, all is confused and forgiven

[u/civil_politician → u/leviathan65]

They couldn’t remember bush either, it’s fucking outrageous

[u/Boris_Godunov → u/civil_politician]

Republicans lie, lie, lie about how much they supported Bush. I've had Republicans I know say to my face they never liked Bush and didn't vote for him the 2nd time, because of Iraq, and it's a laughable lie. Kerry would have won in a landslide if even half of the Republicans who now disavow Bush hadn't actually voted for him.

[u/cactus22minus1 → u/leviathan65]

The definition of a good economy depends entirely on the segment of the population you’re looking at- for the Epstein class, a recession is like striking gold. You get to pay your workers less, you get to buy up tons of assets on the cheap. When you have record inflation and climbing rent, they’re making record profits.

What’s “good for business!!” Is terrible for the regular citizen in unregulated capitalism.

[u/DrMobius0 → u/leviathan65]

Biden fixed it and had the "envy of the world" after covid

Problem was, it wasn't fixed for regular people. Biden did excellent damage control, but it's not like things were suddenly good. The difference between the messaging and reality almost certainly contributed to people's disillusionment with Biden. You just can't say you're out of a hole when you're still waist deep.

[u/StevenMC19]

It's so funny when he says these little quips of truth, because they sound so sad and mopey.

"I don't think I'm going to heaven." "No one will build things in my name when I'm gone." "I might be the last republican president."

I'm over here wheezing!

[u/NoPossibility → u/StevenMC19]

From his lips to gods ears 🙏

[u/War_machine77 → u/NoPossibility]

They're less lips and more of a prolapsed anus but yeah.

[u/redheadartgirl → u/StevenMC19]

It's because he's a narcissist. He genuinely can't picture a world without him in it.

[u/JcbAzPx → u/redheadartgirl]

That's okay, we can all do it for him.

[u/StardustOasis → u/StevenMC19]

Because he is a deeply miserable man. I smile more than he does, and I've been on a high dose of anti depressants for three years.

[u/entenfurz → u/StardustOasis]

I always think of this when people say that he's "funny". No the fuck he isn't. Have you ever seen him laugh? He's a misantrophic narcissistic fuck, who only cares about himself. He says something mean and unhinged and then people twist it for him. "He was only joking." No he wasn't, he's just throwing shit at the wall to see if it sticks.

[u/No_Somewhere_7109]

Here's hoping!

Edit: This is the most awards I've ever had on a comment. Appreciated!

[u/Basicly-Inevitable → u/No_Somewhere_7109]

I think it's more of a threat that we won't have presidents anymore.

[u/tjarg → u/Basicly-Inevitable]

He's trying to scare his base, because he knows that's what motivates them the most; fear.

[u/wheatgivesmeshits → u/tjarg]

Ken Paxton's estranged wife made a campaign ad for him, without mentioning him, but saying no matter how bad the Republican candidate is, you have to vote for them, otherwise your kids are gonna get transgendered.

[u/specialkk77 → u/wheatgivesmeshits]

My 5 year old used the word transitioned today, must be the woke leftist teachers picking kids pronouns! /s

Oh wait no, she used it correctly in a sentence “in gym we transitioned to different exercises when the music stops” 

Unfortunately there’s people dumb enough to think the kids are being indoctrinated by a wider vocabulary. 

[u/MarxistMan13 → u/wheatgivesmeshits]

The fearmongering over trans stuff is just baffling to me. As if there are goon squads out there kidnapping kids and turning their gentials inside-out (I know that's not how SRS works, but it's a funny visual to me anyway.).

You gotta be really dumb to fall for this stuff.

[u/maverik713 → u/wheatgivesmeshits]

Did they... did they turn transgender into a verb?

[u/wheatgivesmeshits → u/maverik713]

That was a bit of poetic license on my part, but there are several ads running here stating that Talarico will force you to let your children get a sex change, and if you don't you'll go to jail for abuse. It's the wildest shit I've ever seen.

[u/HandrewJobert → u/wheatgivesmeshits]

I'm in Ohio and we have similar ads about Sherrod Brown. Fucking nuts.

[u/WhyMustIMakeANewAcco → u/HandrewJobert]

It's because it is literally all republicans have right now. That scary social thing could happen because of democrats!

[u/beardeddragon0113 → u/maverik713]

This is coming from the party that claims that school teachers (who are already under-paid and in underfunded schools) are somehow doing 1-day transition surgeries on students without the parents' consent. Despite teachers regularly using their own salary just to stock their classrooms with pencils, books, and writing materials, apparently they have enough extra money to do surgeries in the school with technology that doesn't exist

[u/specialkk77 → u/beardeddragon0113]

I had to get a doctors note to allow my kid to carry her fucking inhaler at school and these morons think kids can get gender reassignment. It’s so so dumb. 

[u/magichronx → u/maverik713]

They're already trying to make mutilization a word too.

Maybe they're just too dum to realize there isn't a "Z" in "mutilation"

[u/Messyfingers → u/tjarg]

And subsequently it gets used to scare his opponents base as well. It's just fear all the way down.

[u/swingadmin → u/Basicly-Inevitable]

The last Republican president will be the first Dictator.

[u/JohnnyDollar123 → u/swingadmin]

Mf thinks he’s Caesar

[u/Pseudobranchus → u/JohnnyDollar123]

At least that explains the word salad he constantly spews out.

[u/boli99 → u/Pseudobranchus]

Seizure Salad

[u/DietBreastMilk → u/JohnnyDollar123]

Can ya'll just skip to the end part of that story if that's the case then?

[u/KcirderfSdrawkcab → u/DietBreastMilk]

"Et tu, Linda McMahon".

Just kidding, his last words will probably be "Fake news!"

[u/DietBreastMilk → u/KcirderfSdrawkcab]

Personally, I hope it's someone telling him something about Obama as he breathes his last breath.

[u/1968Bladerunner → u/DietBreastMilk]

"Obama just won another Nobel Peace Prize"

That should do the trick nicely...

[u/wytewydow → u/DietBreastMilk]

Italian dictator stories always have such colorful endings.

[u/FauxReal → u/Basicly-Inevitable]

Nah he's saying if Democrats win they'll add more electoral votes to prevent Republicans from winning.

“I will be the last Republican president because they will add about 12 more electoral votes,” Trump said in his speech. 

[u/RFSandler → u/FauxReal]

I think he's mixing up electoral votes and supreme court justices. 12 is a very odd number for the EC, where the best solution is to remove the artificial cap of 538 so that each representative represents as close to equal populations as possible

[u/shastaxc → u/FauxReal]

12 more on top of the current 538 is going to change the game? How?

[u/ConsiderationDry9084 → u/shastaxc]

Pretty sure he is mixing up electoral votes and stuffing the Supreme Court

He watches a bunch of TV, then half listens to those around him and it all just goes into the soup that is slushing around in his skull.

[u/tilt-a-whirly-gig → u/shastaxc]

We need an average of 12 more per state. (Average ... WY would get 1 or 2 more, California would get 20+ more)

[u/OwnsBeagles → u/FauxReal]

We can only hope.

[u/Lucky-Earther → u/OwnsBeagles]

I constantly wish that the actual elected Democrats were as cool as Fox News said they were.

[u/Desperate-Till-9228 → u/Basicly-Inevitable]

They typically don't have presidents in the memory care wing.

[u/Plastic_Umpire_3475 → u/Desperate-Till-9228]

Prison wings don't usually have them either. I'm up for changing that.

[u/starliteburnsbrite → u/Basicly-Inevitable]

Or just his hubris, wanting to be the last Republican president and remembered as that forever

[u/bryce_lynch27 → u/No_Somewhere_7109]

American amnesia.

We somehow always convince ourselves that the next batch of republican candidates couldn’t possibly be worse than the ones prior.

Pretty much since Eisenhower, you get a steady decline. Reagan was insanely popular but isn’t credited enough for the killing of the middle class.

[u/Nasty_Ned → u/bryce_lynch27]

Eisenhower would be considered a flaming left wing lunatic (by the R establishment) if he was on the 2028 ballot.

[u/Xtj8805 → u/Nasty_Ned]

Thats because he was never really a conservative, the republican party was out of power and desperate to win it back so they recruited Eisenhower. Ike then proceeded to appoint liberal and progressive judges, send in the Army to enforce desegregation, and warn the country about the dangers of the Military-Industrial complex, all while he reduced federal debt as percentage of GDP, expanded Social Security, raied the minimum wage, established the department of health, education, welfare, the civil rights act of 1957, built the interstate system, etc.

Looking at his record he definitely did a lot that the conservatives wanted and i wish he hadnt, but his progressive streak was enough to cause the entire right wing movememt to organize and is essentially why the federalist society has the power it does today. They wanted to be sure that no future republican president could find a conscience to do good thinks that make conservatives angry.

Still the last decent republican president. Imo the last good republican president was Teddy.

[u/KyleAg06 → u/bryce_lynch27]

That’s because Republicans have been really good at propaganda for a long time. Democrats can’t message them selves out of a wet paper bag.

[u/Beetlejuice_hero → u/KyleAg06]

Not to let the Democrats off the hook but it’s a lot harder to campaign on:

“Public Policy can be highly beneficial to your life and here is my dry & detailed plan to enact the following changes”.

versus

“They’re coming for you! Transgenders, immigrants, Socialists/Communists/Marxists, Obama, AOC, Pelosi, George Soros, they’re gonna castrate your kids! They’re coming for you! Government sucks - elect us and we’ll prove it! They’re eating the dogs!“

Their base (save for the mega wealthy elites) is - demographically speaking - much dumber & less educated to begin with so the above psychotic fear mongering is highly effective. Think of the people who see & hear Tommy Tuberville and think “yeah he should be my Senator.”

[u/Anothercraphistorian → u/No_Somewhere_7109]

We all thought the same after Obama was elected. Americans have goldfish memories and get bored with normalcy.

[u/MARIOpronoucedMA-RJO → u/Anothercraphistorian]

That's the whole reason the GOP went all in on Trump. He's got the cult that shows up for him and helps the downballot races.

[u/pure-rivers → u/No_Somewhere_7109]

God willing

[u/uteman1011 → u/No_Somewhere_7109]

We can only hope!

[u/That_90s_Kid_]

Again, this is a heritage foundation problem not a trump problem.

Everything we are seeing today was planned and executed by executive order. The heritage foundation has been pushing this for over 30 years.

Even Sarah Palins tea party which is MAGA now. Was trying to push what we see today.

Trump is not smart enough for this. Lets put the blame on the correct people so they have consequences. Theyre using him as a scapegoat because hes at the end of his life and is easily manipulated. They want the focus on him.

Its their way out.

The heritage foundation must be brought down, prosecuted and labeled a religious terrorist organization as they have systematically wrote and executed an attack on the constitution and its people.

[u/djanes376 → u/That_90s_Kid_]

Very much this. Trump is a vehicle for them to entrench their power, nothing more. They may even cringe at some of the stuff he is doing, but they can overlook it as long as they can push their agenda.

[u/That_90s_Kid_ → u/djanes376]

Now we must do something about it. This cannot go unpunished.

[u/DeuceGnarly → u/That_90s_Kid_]

It's not just the heritage foundation - it's the entire republican party. There are no good republicans. We can toss the out of office, but can't do much about the heritage foundation.

[u/technicallynotlying]

George W Bush said the same thing.

Amazingly, it's Republican leaders that underestimated how quickly the American people would forgive their fuck ups. George Bush destroyed the US economy, blew up the national debt, caused a massive housing crash where people lost their homes by the millions, and started a 20 year war in the middle east that resulted in the US leaving with nothing accomplished.

And yet 8 years later, the American people had completely forgotten about it and elected Trump, who started an unnecessary war in the middle east, blew up the national debt and tanked the US economy, again.

Looking forward to the next Republican starting another war and tanking the economy, again.

[u/Miserable-Waltz-7724 → u/technicallynotlying]

In their defense, during that 8 years a black guy tried to give them stimulus money and better healthcare. And the alternative to Trump was letting a woman also try to give them better healthcare. So they really didn't have a choice when you think about it.
(/s obviously)

[u/jj8o8 → u/Miserable-Waltz-7724]

I'm sure the tipping point was the black guy trying to help them. Their fragile racist egos just couldn't handle it and shattered.

[u/invinciblewalnut → u/technicallynotlying]

All because America elected a black man who one time wore a tan suit

[u/Odd_Ant5 → u/invinciblewalnut]

Hey now Bill Clinton got a blowjob.

People in here talking about how the GOP reliably starts forever wars while fucking the economy and ballooning the debt, as if the Dems haven't reliably done things equally as bad*

\as covered by Fox News*

[u/ThisIsGr8ThisIsGr8 → u/technicallynotlying]

I long for the days where I thought W would be the worst president we would ever have

[u/Skastrik → u/technicallynotlying]

I'd say W was likely correct. The current MAGA version of the GOP is nothing like his GOP.

[u/Risky-Trizkit → u/Skastrik]

We saw flashes of MAGA in the Sarah Palin crowd. The normalization of unconcealed, arms wide open stupidity in politics.

[u/rachface336 → u/Risky-Trizkit]

Palin lead to Trump. They couldn't win on McCain's Republican party anymore but they saw what her presence did for the campaign. She couldn't run as a woman obviously, Trump was the last great desperate try. It worked. And it damned them from ever going back to what they were.

[u/Rellestys]

He already tried to be the last President, so that tracks.

[u/BuddhaLennon → u/Rellestys]

He’s still trying.

[u/CertainSituation4487 → u/Rellestys]

Hopefully soon the late president.

[u/notsure500]

The quiet part he didn't say "...because I fucked up this country beyond recognition".

[u/SympatheticGuy → u/notsure500]

"and the rest of the party did nothing to even try and stop me"

[u/CJKayak]

I dunno. I pretty much blame myself for this.

During the W Administration I said, "Well, the good news is, we'll never have a worse President than this guy."

Yeah...I fucked that one up. I'm not making predictions anymore.

[u/Knightforlife → u/CJKayak]

The Trump presidency has really saved W’s reputation by comparison lol

[u/Money-Giraffe2521 → u/Knightforlife]

Which is saying a lot considering that GWB was responsible for the US committing war crimes.

Like holy fuck, the bar was already pretty damn low and Trump has taken it and buried it underground.

[u/214ObstructedReverie → u/Money-Giraffe2521]

Which is saying a lot considering that GWB was responsible for the US committing war crimes.

Trump's people literally comitted the textbook example of a war crime. Literally, it's the example given in the Dept of Defense's War Manual: Double tapping a shipwrecked crew.

[u/cerpintaxt33 → u/CJKayak]

Oh, so you’re the one 

[u/TripleJess → u/CJKayak]

To think I could be wistful for the days of George W... it boggles the mind.

[u/Apoc_SR2N]

So many Republican apologists in this thread. The situation we are in is what the Republican party has been working towards for decades. I'd hazard that they've been at it for longer than most people in here have been alive, myself included. There has never been a point in our lives where the Republican party wasn't aiming to disenfranchise us. If they never get a voice again, we are better off.

[u/Poison_the_Phil → u/Apoc_SR2N]

That snake Roger Stone has literally been working towards this since the Nixon administration. Not by himself of course, but yes this has been decades in the making.

[u/relevantelephant00 → u/Apoc_SR2N]

The Republican Party needs to be disbanded if we ever get out of this. Replace the two party system with ranked choice voting and hopefully a way to keep far-right wing conservatives out of national gov't for good.

[u/WantCookiesNow]

Posting some of the article here because he’s not saying it’s because he’ll become a dictator. He’s saying this because he’s fear-mongering.

We all know that fear works on the conservative base, and that many people believe that putting democrats in charge is literally worse than hitler. That’s where he’s striking here - fear.

“President Trump declared during a Monday political rally that he would “be the last Republican president” if Democrats clinch control of Congress and the White House in the next two elections. 

“I will be the last Republican president because they will add about 12 more electoral votes,” Trump said in his speech.

“They’ll add four more senators. They’ll add 10 more congresspeople, approximately,” he continued. “They’re going to rig the Supreme Court through just a lot of people.” 

The president added that Democrats want to raise the total number of justices on the high court to 23, adding 10 to the number that has been floated by party leaders. 

“The real number that they dream of is 23,” Trump claimed during his speech. “They say 13. Who wants 13?”

[u/sir_mrej → u/WantCookiesNow]

Republicans have lost the popular vote more times recently than won it, for presidential elections. And yet changing things to be actually fair makes them mad.

[u/charlies-ghost → u/WantCookiesNow]

Every accusation is a confession. Trump is telling you what Republicans plan to do.

[u/Into-the-stream → u/WantCookiesNow]

Don’t threaten me with a good time.

[u/TableQuiet1518]

There will come a day when we no longer have to read the words "Trump said."

[u/Ozymandias12 → u/[deleted]]

True but these are very different times. The oligarchs and their white supremacist and evangelical underlings learned a lot in the 20th century. They created Fox News and the entire propaganda network to brainwash hundreds of millions.

Democrats are also historically unpopular. They’re seen as milquetoast and weak. I say this as a democratic voter myself. It will take an extremely charismatic leader or leaders to turn that image around. In the meantime, democrats will hopefully retake Congress this year but it wont be because they are popular. It’ll be because Trump is such a complete fuck up and corrupt authoritarian ghoul. Americans have the memory of a goldfish. I fully expect them to turn on democrats the second things haven’t magically gotten better within a few months of the new Congress.

[u/oncestrong13 → u/Ozymandias12]

The Democratic Party before the Great Depression and New Deal was racist and ineffective. New leadership and a new coalition changed all that. It can be done again.

[u/BudwinTheCat → u/[deleted]]

Probably helped that those people couldn't hook themselves up to the 24/7 rightwing propoganda firehose like they can now.

[u/iambirdman123]

Don't threaten me with a good time

[u/B-Z_B-S]

Traitor Trump is trying to rile up his base by projecting his own lawbreaking onto his political opponents.

[u/ocsurf74]

Don't tease me with a GREAT FUCKING TIME!

[u/SchrodingersRSVP]

God willing.

[u/Trubydoor]

Don’t threaten me with a good time…

[u/USCanuck]

While I hope the republican party falls into a black hole, I do not hope that we end up in a 1-party system. I am going to vote blue up and down my ticket because anyone who knowingly supports the republican party is either 1) dumb, 2) a coward, or 3) a bigoted fascist.

But that ultimately means that I have to accept whatever candidate wins the democratic primary. Meaning I can only support candidates who have the ability to navigate party politics. I want a legitimate choice again. At least when Mitt, GWB, and McCain ran, you could weigh their policies and character and have legitimate discourse over which candidate was better. There was room in those parties for compromise and debate. Now, the choice is merely "do you want America to be nazi germany or not?"

[u/gob384 → u/USCanuck]

If the Dems became a 'uni party' it would probably not last more than 2-4 election cycles.

Either it would split with the 'moderate/ corporate' Dems camp vs the 'progressive' camp or the GOP would regain prevalence in a generation or so like they did post FDR

[u/DrocketX → u/gob384]

There's absolutely no way it would take a generation. I remember after the 2008 election, there was discussion that Bush damaged the Republican party so badly that it would take decades for them to rebuild. Turns out it only took until 2010, when they made MASSIVE gains and took back the House.

Things now are completely different than they used to be, especially for Republicans. Part of that is Fox News, AM radio and other propaganda sources, that can keep their base motivated no matter what, part of it is how intertwined the party is with Christianity, but part of it is also the fact that the GOP has worked hard over the past several decades on the state and local level to control basically everything in a huge number of states. No matter how badly Trump fucks things up on the national level, the reality is that the Republican party isn't going to wind up in the wilds for a generation. They'll be back within 2 presidential elections, at the absolute outside. Realistically, probably one, when the unfortunate Democrat who takes Trump's place fails to solve every problem in the world within 3 days of taking office.

[u/TheTresStateArea → u/USCanuck]

I hope that maga republicans go away forever.

I hope that we can get ranked choice voting passed nationally.

I hope that we can have a multiparty system and that the duopoly of Republican and Democrats ceases to exist. They, and first past the post, has done nothing but harm Americans since it's inception.

[u/sbsb27 → u/TheTresStateArea]

Could we also lose the electoral college?

[u/Stunning-Chipmunk243 → u/sbsb27]

I agree, it's an antiquated system that should have ended long ago. Everything needs a complete overhaul - Voting, Age & term limits, insider trading, the Citizens United ruling, campaign finance, gerrymandering, etc. Time to pull the engine and fix this thing called democracy before it ends up in the junkyard

[u/quell3245 → u/TheTresStateArea]

We really need to have at least 3 major parties represented in all branches of government, it can’t be our team vs your team anymore. Needs to be room for compromise and a more even balance of power.

[u/DFu4ever]

After this fucking term he should be.

Unfortunately, it will only take a single term for people to forget how absolutely fucked the GOP left this nation and start blaming the Democrats for everything.

[u/insanekid66]

Trump says this, Trump says that. Is anyone actually listening to this dumbass at this point?

[u/chemicaxero]

The Republicans should completely collapse as a party, with the Democrats becoming the new conservative party and a new truly left-wing Workers Party entering the fold.

[u/extraqueso → u/chemicaxero]

Representation of the working class sounds magical. I'm so tired of the corporate shills we are typically represented by. 

[u/bscheck1968 → u/chemicaxero]

Sadly, even working class Americans have been conditioned to vote against policies that help them, so unless education changes this will continue.

[u/New_Alternative8711]

Bush was the last republican president. Trump was the first NAZI president.

[u/flazisismuss → u/New_Alternative8711]

Trump is the head of the Republican Party and all of its members are in lock step with him on all his lies, corruption, incompetence and treason. There’s no reason to absolve these cretins, Trump could not have wreaked as much havoc or protected billionaire sex criminals so easily had Republicans not been so uniformly in favor of it.

[u/pattyG80 → u/New_Alternative8711]

That isn't even a joke. His dad was arrested for being in a kkk demonstration.

[u/RealSlyck → u/New_Alternative8711]

I’ll accept this answer.

[u/notmyworkaccount5 → u/New_Alternative8711]

The nazis based a lot of what they did on what America did to the native Americans, trump is the distilled representation of America's id.

[u/Zesty_Guh]

read between the lines, he is saying he is the last president and first monarch of America. this mid term and next presidential election is nothing short of fighting for the soul of this country. As an ordinary person, you won't just be fighting the brainwashed masses, the raging racists; but also foreign governments that have bought every pillar of this govt as well as the people holding on to power. It is a tall ask from a selfish and self centered people to lay it all on the line to save the soul of this country.

[u/infiniZii]

That could be the way that the Trump Administration makes America Great Again.

By fucking shit up and being so fucking comically evil (and astonishingly stupid) that all the smoke screens and political bullshit become visible and we rebuild a better, stronger, and more reasonable government as a result.

[u/scurveymobile]

Everyone is cheering, but Is it possible that he means he will become the de facto leader of an Authoritarian Oligarchy that no longer elects presidents?

[u/julianriv]

Because the Republican party deserves eternal punishment for enabling this clown. So yeah I agree.

[u/mokti]

I just hope he's the last corrupt politician... but I know that's asking too much.

[u/Mudsharkbites]

Let’s hope he gets that one right. I will never vote for another republican again after the way the party en-masse betrayed the entire country and supported him in all his excesses, failing to hold him accountable for anything at all. They don’t deserve another chance.

[u/d4dog]

I suspect his debacle of a presidency will leave a stench that will be a ball & chain on the GoP for decades.  Fair to say he's fucked it for everyone in the future of the Republican Party.

[u/DisastroImminente → u/d4dog]

I said the same thing about George W and boy was I wrong.

[u/MechanicalTurkish → u/DisastroImminente]

People said the same thing about Trump the first time around and here we are.

[u/Thromok → u/MechanicalTurkish]

I’m honestly still not convinced that there wasn’t ballot tampering.

[u/POEness → u/Thromok]

There absolutely was.

[u/Amazing_Fix_2399 → u/MechanicalTurkish]

Me. I was one of those. I couldn’t believe this regard won the first time. Then after a spectacular 4 years of anything but winning, and another 4 of hearing about this non president, he wins again. Fucking insane for anyone with more than 2 neurons.

[u/Zanac36532 → u/d4dog]

I wish it were so. Too many Republican'ts will simply wish it all away - that Trump made some bad decisions, but that he wasn't ALL bad, and they'll keep voting Republican't. Republicant's not voting Republican't...that's take some self-awareness and some eating of one's own pride, and frankly, I don't see it happening for more than a cycle.

[u/faintly_nebulous → u/d4dog]

Eh they'll forget in 2 -4 years, and that's if they even think for a second about voting against the Republican party

[u/eatpastagophasta → u/faintly_nebulous]

One of the smartest men I've ever worked with (Director level at a bank and actually deserves it based on his work ethic and mental acuity) told us at dinner - "I could never vote for a democrat"

These people genuinely treat it like a sports fandom and not like it's the future of your country.

[u/DannyDevitosNappy]

Don't do that. Don't get my hopes up.

[u/reap3rx]

When (if) the Democrats take over, they actually deliver real things to the people and reign in the oligarchs, this might happen. If they continue to be feckless and the only thing they can say is "At least we're not them" then we will see another Republican in 2032.

[u/metalunamutant]

This should be run nationwide 24/7 as every single Democrat's campaign slogan.

[u/Charger525]

Would you look at that; Trump finally said something I agree with.

[u/dawillhan]

Yeah cause he ruined it for the rest of them by being an ignorant asshole

[u/pfroo40]

Well, modern Republicanism sucks ass, it is christo-fascist regressivism with nothing to offer but culture wars, oppression, and foreign wars driven by external and/or corporate interests.

If they eventually disembark from the crazy-fucking-train they are on, maybe they could be worth considering by anyone who isn't a stupid fuck, racist, or deliberate bad-actor.

[u/Nomanodyssey]

He did that bad a job.

[u/mediocre_remnants]

I wish. But what's going to happen is that the GOP will crash the economy, Democrats will take all 3 houses but without a supermajority, and they'll spend all of their time trying to fix all of the shit that Trump broke. Then by the time they're up for re-election, the GOP will freak out about how the Democrats raised taxes and are crushing small business and people will vote Republican again. By that point they'll inherit a healthy economy and proceed to destroy it.

I'm in my late 40s and have seen this happen like 3-4 times in my life.

[u/KafeenHedake]

...and first Republican dictator.

[u/astrozombie2012]

God I hope so

[u/jcpopm]

Genuinely think if he loses both branches of Congress he will be completely unhinged and dare Republicans to remove him.

[u/buried20kleague]

Sort of like Hitler was the last of that party?

[u/TMA_01]

Unlikely. But that would be entirely thanks to him. Though, democrats (my party) aren't helping themselves. They're just letting him do all the convincing.

[u/Idrinkbeereverywhere]

This is what he wants. Same reason narcissistic abusers kill their whole families

[u/Clark_Kent_TheSJW]

For once I agree. He is such a catastrophic fuck up and I sincerely hope that he has damaged the Republican brand to that degree.

For an entire damn decade, liberals and leftists have been warning conservative America about him and their policy. And Trump has only been proving us right every step of the way till today.

Frankly, they owe us an apology to say the least.

[u/badasimo → u/Clark_Kent_TheSJW]

You don't have to be a liberal or a leftist to see where it was going. You just have to not be a moron

[u/Desertwind16v]

Don’t threaten me with a good time! There has not been one successful republican president in my life, they’re terrible for US.

[u/Ribauld]

Is this like a Monkey's Paw situation that sounds great but takes a horrible turn because we are going into a dictatorship with the elimination of political parties instead of people rejecting these chuds?

[u/misterbondpt]

Americans are too stupid and gullible to allow that. They'll probably think the 5k check is real or something

[u/jd3marco]

The GOP really jumped the shark with this orange pedophile man baby… They should fuck off forever.

[u/33drea33]

I mean, yeah. The Republicans rewrote their official party platform to read "Whatever Trump says!" The Republican party died years ago.

[u/Assine2]

That would be marvelous! Healthcare, Education, Worker's Rights, Environmental Protection would be restored. The constant remaking of D.C. would come to a halt. Why is he saying this is a bad thing?

[u/FesteringRuin]

Don't threaten me with a good time.

[u/TrueGlich]

Honestly the world would be better if we could some how split the DNC and GOP up both parties have WAY too much spectrum We need at least break them down to a least 4-6 . in the old type chart i fall into Left libertarian and i have major issues with both the GOP and the DNC level of crazy in both frustrates me to no end.

[u/steemSTEM]

If that's true, its only because hes done such a terrible job that nobody will vote for republicans ever again. Arguably there's logic to that as Trump is certainly one of the worst, if not the absolute worst presidents this country has had.

[u/da_man4444]

We all hope but in reality what will happen is:
Dems win in 2028 but can't clean up the mess that he left fast enough so Americans get frustrated and elect another ultra-right demon in 2032

[u/nickels55]

Nah, the people are too stupid to not give them another chance after the Democrats fail to fix everything the Republicans destroyed fast enough. It's a back and forth hopefully the next time we at least get a sane Republican in charge if any remain.

[u/GravyMcBiscuits]

Last Republican pres? That claim is nonsensical.

Last MAGA president? Maybe too optimistic but that'd be amazing.

[u/Few_Needleworker4384]

I would love that to be true, but Trump said it, so that pretty much guarantees it isn't.

[u/DJBreadwinner]

GWB was the last Republican president. Trump is something far worse.

[u/KnowMatter]

Did he then cackle and declare himself the first Emperor of a new American Empire?

[u/BlueRFR3100]

Finally, a Trump idea I can support.

[u/3p1taph]

Since he’s destroying the party and doing his best to destroy democracy in the US he may be right.

[u/Python_07]

Stop getting my hopes up.

[u/Roy_Koopa_DX]

Let's fucking hope so!

[u/Frantoll]

lol, and whose fault is that?

[u/OK_Commodor64]

Sounds good 🫡

[u/joshdoereddit]

That would be great. The country would benefit greatly if Republicans didn't hold a single majority.

[u/StatisticianTasty664]

The way the republican party is now is not fit to be a governing party. It has lost all it's principles and morals, and is just a hub for narcissistic self-serving, grift and deranged anti-democratic bigotry. It has to crash and burn. Hopefully, out of the ashes a moderate conservative party can rise. 

The real problem is however that the political system in the US is completely corrupted. Citizens united needs to be repealed. You can't have a functioning political system when you have deranged billionaires putting hundreds of millions of dollars into political races. Another thing is that the US should be forced to join the ICC. The US should never be allowed to start another war without facing the consequences of their actions. The good will is long gone.

[u/-18k-]

From your lips to God's ears ...

[u/BalanceOrganic7735]

If Democracy and the rule of law are restored in the USA, Democrats going forward will be as popular with the People as FDR was in the 1930s and 1940s. For the same reasons.

Beware the naysayers. Termites exist to undermine foundations.

[u/Skinnieguy]

More BS fear mongering to get his cult to vote.

[u/Listening_Heads]

And by that he means no more elections?

[u/roachy69]

Here's hoping

[u/bopgame]

Fingers crossed

[u/mercasio391]

The last real republican president was Bush. MAGA is something else completely