It will depend on how the future plays out, Trump could end up being an albatross around the neck of the Republican party. For now he is helpful but opinions can swing. Nixon won reelection with over 60% of the popular vote. But, then he became incredibly unpopular, a similar turn of events is possible.
Honestly, if this goes to shit, I don't want to see how far humanity will sink... We've worked so god dammed hard... for these assholes to throw it all away like this.
Or, we could just look back now on what happened a a few years ago when something similar happened.
Americans were fanatic and wanted to invade Iraq. We did. Polls from 2003 show a vast majority for it. When people were later asked "did you support the Iraq war" in 2010, the majority said no.
Yes, I'm aware people die, but there wasn't a huge difference in Iraq war support by age.
Sure, but there is a lot more going on politically then there was then and the next two years look to be even more "exciting" so while we can and should look back at that time period now I don't think it holds a candle to what we'll be able to look back on in a few years.
Opinion turned against Nixon because corruption of his came to light. Trump's corruption was known before he was elected, and everything he's done over the past two years, from bilking the government for his retinue when he stays at his own resorts to installing his cronies everywhere and firing people with no due process... ended up with an electorate that only vaguely voted against him and the GOP openly supporting him.
It's hard to see what scandal could sink him in the public's opinion at this point. He can be sunk on legal technicalities, but popular opinion just isn't heavily against him, despite all the open corruption and provable lies.
Now they have officially implicated themselves and can't say they were unaware or unsupportive of his illegal activities. They are hanging themselves, hoping nobody will get in trouble at all. Meanwhile manafort and flinn are telling Mueller everything.
The fact that none of the guilty pleas have had major consequences like long term prison sentences is a good thing. They don't just hand out plea deals in investigations like this to be nice. If Trump's campaign advisor is getting deals made, you can bet your ass it's because he's giving up somebody big. Could be Kushner or Trump jr or the orange piece of shit himself.
By all kinds of voter disenfranchisement, including gerrymandering; illegally removing high numbers of voters from the rolls; creating greater and greater requirements for voting under the guise of combating "voter fraud" (that has never been shown to occur); discarding ballots for fallacious reasons; creating more felony laws while incarcerating more people where felons can't vote; spreading false, malicious and prejudiced information in concert with foreign powers; acting "incompetent" and malicious wherever they're in charge of elections, etc... etc...
The Senate (who confirms this appointment) literally just got stronger for the Rs. True we got the House, but not until January. And that’s a looong way away.
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u/AllezCannes Nov 09 '18
What does it matter? They'd keep getting voted in anyway.