# Assuming Senate remains R in 2018 and Trump is re-elected in 2020. What's your plan B? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [October 24, 2018, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/assuming-senate-remains-r-in-2018-and-trump-is-re-elected-in-2020-whats-your-plan-b/823436 "2018-10-24T15:38:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2018, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/assuming-senate-remains-r-in-2018-and-trump-is-re-elected-in-2020-whats-your-plan-b/823436/21 "2018-10-24T20:10:44Z")
> [@CaptMurdock](#): > > Trying to stay out of the ovens. They’re showers, and they are just to delouse people from the infestations of Fact and Evidence. Take a towel and move on. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2018, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/assuming-senate-remains-r-in-2018-and-trump-is-re-elected-in-2020-whats-your-plan-b/823436/22 "2018-10-24T20:21:47Z")
> [@Projammer](#): > > What’s your strategy dealing with another Trump term with Republican dominated houses? Wait, your hypothetical includes the Republicans holding the House of Representatives? ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2018, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/assuming-senate-remains-r-in-2018-and-trump-is-re-elected-in-2020-whats-your-plan-b/823436/23 "2018-10-24T20:25:39Z")
“There is no plan B” ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2018, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/assuming-senate-remains-r-in-2018-and-trump-is-re-elected-in-2020-whats-your-plan-b/823436/24 "2018-10-24T20:26:23Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > Lots of jack Daniels, followed by the realization that as a straight white male US citizen who is financially secure who is old enough that the worst effects of gloabla warming won’t hit until after I’m gone means I’m pretty far down on the list of people who are going to be fucked over by the Republicans. Hopefully by the time they reach me on the “They came for the … and I did nothing” list, someone will have done something. Yes. Nonetheless, my Wife is traveling to Mexico with her daughter, and will investigate the American diaspora there. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2018, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/assuming-senate-remains-r-in-2018-and-trump-is-re-elected-in-2020-whats-your-plan-b/823436/25 "2018-10-25T00:43:57Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > More investigations, more protests, more public harassment of Republicans, more name-calling, more predictions of brown people in concentration camps. Business as usual, just louder. > > Regards, > Shodan Well, it’s only fair to investigate Russian interference as many times as there were Benghazi inquiries. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2018, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/assuming-senate-remains-r-in-2018-and-trump-is-re-elected-in-2020-whats-your-plan-b/823436/26 "2018-10-25T00:57:45Z")
> [@Bijou\_Drains](#): > > Canada is too cold except for maybe Vancouver 🙂 That’s actually not really true for much of the populated area (some parts of Ontario are further south than northern California) and I anticipate major employment and economic benefits in Canada from the building of the new Southern Wall to keep out the fascists and gun nuts. ---
**Author:** ![JB99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/439d5e/32.png) [@JB99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JB99)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2018, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/assuming-senate-remains-r-in-2018-and-trump-is-re-elected-in-2020-whats-your-plan-b/823436/27 "2018-10-25T01:27:27Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > More investigations, more protests, more public harassment of Republicans, more name-calling, more predictions of brown people in concentration camps. Business as usual, just louder. > > Regards, > Shodan Of course you’ll never acknowledge the entire last ten years. Investigations, protests, name-calling predictions of white people in concentration camps. Business as usual for the Republicans. ---
**Author:** ![TimeWinder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bcef8e/32.png) [@TimeWinder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TimeWinder)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2018, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/assuming-senate-remains-r-in-2018-and-trump-is-re-elected-in-2020-whats-your-plan-b/823436/28 "2018-10-27T19:43:44Z")
> [@HurricaneDitka](#): > > Close down shop, and let some independent startups takeover? > > If they can’t beat Trump after four years of (what they’ve repeatedly assured me will be a disastrous) Trump administration, they don’t deserve to be a political party. Fuck that. If the elections were fair, there wouldn’t be a GOP to lose to. If the Dems “lose” (and I’m pretty sure they will), it’ll be because the GOP decided that Dems only get 3/5 of a vote. ---
**Author:** ![Red\_Wiggler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/red_wiggler/32/13190_2.png) [@Red\_Wiggler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Wiggler)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2018, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/assuming-senate-remains-r-in-2018-and-trump-is-re-elected-in-2020-whats-your-plan-b/823436/29 "2018-10-27T21:30:36Z")
If Trump wins with a smaller portion of the vote than his Dem challenger, then the Democrats need to hammer this point home with a largely unengaged youthful generation and get them to realize that they have the numbers to correct this situation. And if they control the House, then Dems need to continue pushing Don Beyer’s Fair Representation Act. If the Don steamrolls his opponent, then they still need to do all the above. Though another four years with him at the helm may do the job for them. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/assuming-senate-remains-r-in-2018-and-trump-is-re-elected-in-2020-whats-your-plan-b/823436.md?page=1)