Buh-bye America

[Proud Liberal Dem]

1. That seems a bit overly pessimistic IMHO

and four years is an eternity in politics. It's probably unrealistic to think that the Republican Party is finished. I thought that they would be dead after 2008. It's probably inevitable that the Republicans will win the WH again if they can find the right person who's conservative but not crazy (which will be a hard find IMHO) but he Republicans at the national level have been having a nervous breakdown ever since Obama was elected POTUS and, between the Tea Party and a boatload of awful national candidates, their party has disintegrated to the point where Donald Trump(!) is their LIKELY nominee for President. I can't even imagine where they will be in four more years. Yeah, they've put themselves in the position where they don't even need to win a majority of votes to maintain a stranglehold on the House and people aren't getting out to vote in midterms to vote for Democrats, so they keep winning those elections fairly easily and red states are still pretty red but I don't know how they will be able to keep seriously competing as well if they don't start finding a way to broaden their appeal to more demographics- and they never will as long as they keep courting the Tea Party/Freedom Caucus votes.