This is now a full blown Constitutional crisis and needs to go to the SCOTUS

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36. Y'know, I thought it was the end of the world when Nixon was elected. And Reagan.

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Nixon was a virulent racist and anti-Semite who waged a secret war in Cambodia, maintained an enemies list, tore up the Constitution whenever he could. He was elected in 1972 by a nearly 20 million vote margin. For those of us around who remember those time, it certainly felt like the end of the world.

And Reagan's two elections, by 8 million votes in 1980 and 17 million votes in 1984 left many of us feeling as isolated and desperate as we had in 1972.

But we recovered.

And we'll recover again. But only if we don't give up by accepting the doomsday scenario as inevitable. Compared to 1972, 1980 and 1984, we have one significant advantage -- we have numbers. More people didn't want Trump to be president than did. And based on current polling, his limited popularity continues to fall like a rock == unprecedented for a president elect.

It may feel like all the political norms have been shattered, but they haven't been. And as Trump continues his erratic behavior, it will become more and more imperative for Repubs to distance themselves from him and more and more imperative, particularly in 2018, to tie repubs to him. People seem to forget that a lot of voters in the country switch from one side to the other based on how they feel the president is doing, which is why we did well in the later Bush years.

I see way too much "give up, we're doomed" sentiment on this board these days.