The fact that you can only see those two possibilities pretty much sums up why your predictive skilz are not impressing much of anyone here.
Seriously, it’s one thing to have a very liberal viewpoint on things. There is nothing wrong with having and holding liberal views on social and financial issues. I sympathize with liberal views on social issues quite a lot. And I think that those views should be aggressively articulated as to why they are right, using both deductive and inductive reasoning.
But it’s another thing to allow any viewpoint to clog up the reasoning skills and turn all conversation about things into highly-charged rhetoric that distorts reality. It sets you up to be consistently disappointed, because the reality of what happens will so rarely meet the rhetoric you’ve articulated. Despite having elected the “Orange Hitler”, the country will manage to make its way through time without serious troubles. Does that mean we won’t be challenged? Not necessarily. But the Civil War didn’t happen because the idiots running The Democracy nominated James Buchanan, nor did Pearl Harbor happen solely because we elected FDR. Broad influences that shape what we become are usually outside the control of one individual and his appointees. And no, the whole thing isn’t going to suddenly implode on President Trump, despite your most ardent wishes.
Which isn’t to say you aren’t right that one of those two things aren’t true about Chaffetz, but I can think of at least five other reasons, none of which would make your eyes light up with pleasure.
The problem with this is that the cyclical nature of politics means that a Republican was likely to win after 8 years of democrat rule and an awful democrat nominee. The problem with Trump is that he is like the Republican’s Obama in that he is a political neophyte who is so unfamiliar with the levers of power that he will not be able to accomplish anything during the Republicans time on top. The second problem is that of branding, as the face of the Republicans his unpopularity will makes the Republicans time on top shorter than it would have been otherwise.
Imagine what could – with regard to what you were just saying – pretty much be called The Worst-Case Scenario For The GOP: despite having Republican majorities in both houses of Congress, next-to-no desired legislation gets passed during the Trump administration before said Trump administration leaves office in 2021 along with said Republican majority in one or both houses. That’s plausible, right?
What also strikes me as entirely plausible, in that same scenario: between now and 2021, every Supreme Court Justice on the wrong side of eighty gets replaced by a Trump nominee before the Senate changes hands.
What the hell happens then? Is it, at the same time, Worst-Case For The Dems?
Not necessarily to politicians for whom being in power is the goal. That statement assumes that they care one iota about doing something for the populace. Now, personally, I’m sure they do to some degree, I’m not quite so cynical to say they don’t care at all. I just have a funny feeling that governing a country for the benefit of the citizens is somewhere in the Top Ten but surely is not #1.
N.B.: I include all politicians of all parties everywhere lest somebody think I mean only conservatives. I’m sure the position of “for the good of the country and its people” varies from party to party and politician to politician.
You’re just not tired of winning yet. Give it time, I have it on good authority that you will become so. But, yeah, I wish the Democrats were screwing up this badly.
