For weeks this fall, an ebullient President Trump traveled relentlessly to hold raise-the-rafters campaign rallies — sometimes three a day — in states where his presence was likely to help Republicans on the ballot.
But his mood apparently has changed as he has taken measure of the electoral backlash that voters delivered Nov. 6. With the certainty that the incoming Democratic House majority will go after his tax returns and investigate his actions, and the likelihood of additional indictments by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III, Trump has retreated into a cocoon of bitterness and resentment, according to multiple administration sources.
He shoulda Made it Easy on Himself....Irony of ironies: Scott Walker signed a law preventing second place finishers from requesting a recount if they lost by more than 1%. Walker lost by 1.2%
I don't think that this happens in the US any more though does it? More and more I see a country almost totally divided in two with each side believing that it will be death for them and their way of life if the opposition gets in. Doesn't matter how bored they get of Trump his base is never gonna think "maybe we'll give the godless commie socialist immigrant-rapist supporting libtards a go" - they'd rather stick pins in their eyes and then drink a pint of diarrhoea.I wonder if people (and I mean even the people who like him) will get bored of Trump eventually, and if that will be the end of him, as it would be if he was just a reality TV star?
There's a degree of this in party politics, isn't there? A sort of 'change the channel' attitude towards electing the opposition.
no, it very much does - the party in opposition almost always makes gains in the midterms, and that's exactly what just happenedI don't think that this happens in the US any more though does it?
backlash has forced the Democratic power structure to the leftAny silver lining at all?
To me the gains were relatively small when you consider that they were against someone who has repeatedly proved and continues to prove on a daily basis that he is incapable of doing his job. I mean, maybe I didn't pay as much attention to US politics in the past as I do now, but to me it seems a new (and incredible) thing that Trump does all this stuff that (from where I'm sitting) insults his office or betrays his country in ways that theoretically should piss off most republicans and yet it has no effect on a large number of his voters cos really despite their professed patriotism they care more about keeping the Dems out than they do about whether the President sides with a foreign power rather than his own intelligence services. That's what I'm on about when I say there is no "change the channel" thing going on in the way that there used to be. Of course there are still floating voters but I get the impression that there are fewer of them than before and that it is less and less likely that others move into that group, or even that those on one or the other side of that group change their vote.no, it very much does - the party in opposition almost always makes gains in the midterms, and that's exactly what just happened