Re: The Awesomesauce of the American 2020 Presidential Elections
Reply #32 –
Trump is more likely to become the death of the Republican party than of the country, but he may grievously wound both.
Like I said before, the US system was designed to stop people like Trump, but it has never truly been tested before. I think the system will win, but I am not yet sure.
@rjhowie,
@Belfrager,
@krake may snap at the country, but it is from the safety of knowing it's there. Though if we had to, we'd probably survive the Post-American era.
I don't care that much about France, it's France after all, but Le Pen is unlikely to win. Not in a Trump "better not" sense, but in a purely probabilistic sense, she really doesn't have the numbers. But even with a different one we can already say that a year from now the US and France both will have a dimwit for president.
Putin is past his "best before" date, as is
Iznogood Erdoğan. Modi and Xi will probably both eventually end up in the "deplorable" basket, their authoritanism can lead to some intermediate good.