@blatham,
blatham wrote:
Quote:Intelligencer staffers Josh Barro, Benjamin Hart, and Ed Kilgore discuss whether President Trump’s possible refusal to accept election results warrants a liberal freakout.
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I find this to be an amusing bit of projection on the part of these reporters. Liberals had their own freakout when Trump won the Presidential election. More to the point, the accumulating evidence indicates that once Trump took the lead in the Republican primary, a conspiracy emerged within the Obama administration to prevent his victory and get "an insurance policy" investigation going that would prevent his victory in the then forthcoming election. They broke numerous laws and violated the integrity of Federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies in the process, but failed in their goal of preventing a Trump Presidency.
Now, after the Failed conspiracy of the Obama Administration, and as we approach the 2020 election, it is amusing to see these liberal conspirators speculating about a Trump coup or refusal himself to give up office following an imagined defeat in 2020.
Our economy is doing very well indeed with GDP growth rates and unemployment rates better than we have seen in decades. This alone is a very strong indicator of a 2nd Trump Term.
In addition the Democrat party is highly divided between zealots advocating policies almost certain to be rejected by the majority of voters (though very exciting to themselves), and political pros who want desperately to win and take out Trump. Their roster of Presidential contenders has its own abundant comic figures, and, now, in a somewhat frantic effort to mask their real political natures, Democrat leaders have resurrected their own superannuated and somewhat comic political figure of the recent past, recasting him (Joe Biden) as a grandfatherly restraint on the far left loonies who currently dominate that party. This doesn't look (to me) like a formula for success.
It appears the real comedy here is the self-serving assumption among these reporters that Democrats will win in 2020, and, in confirmation of their deep fears, perhaps left over from 2016, he will refuse to leave. Trump derangement Syndrome indeed!