For Democrats, leaving Donald Trump in office is not only good politics — it is the best chance for fundamental realignment of American politics in more than a generation. Mr. Trump is three years into destroying what we know as the Republican Party. Another two years just might finish it off. Trumpism has become Republicanism, and that spells electoral doom for the party.
Mr. Trump has abandoned most of the core principles that have defined Republicans for the past century. Free trade abandoned for protectionism. Challenging our adversaries and promoting democracy replaced by coddling Russia and cozying up to dictators near and far. Fiscal conservatism replaced by reckless spending and exploding deficits.
What’s left of the party is a rigid adherence to tax cuts, a social agenda that repels most younger Americans and rampant xenophobia and race-based politics that regularly interfere with the basic functioning of the federal government.
Republicans today are the party of Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson — a coalition that, in the face of every demographic trend in America, will mean the long-term realignment of the federal government behind the Democrats.
"Now, about the infrastructure. ..tad embarrassing...who are you going to hire? Mexicans?"...…..not likely. Nor Canadians. Under Donald our two closest neighbors, Mexico and Canada, now think Americans are assholes. But.... God Damn It! We are rough tough macho's who aren't going to take any shit from anyone ….
"Society in those days was a perfectly competent, perfectly complacent, ruthless machine." Virginia Woolf 1897