Trump is elected: what would happen to this country 2 years from now...

[couchpotato07]

He is so self-centered and narcissistic... I think this country is going to suffer internationally..

[Reaganfan]

The whole country is pissed. We are looking for a leader that taps into that. Maybe that's Trump.

[Fuzzy Bear]

Two years from now, Trump (if elected) will have a high approval rating, because his reforms will be popular.  If Congress frustrates them, it will be all to the good for Trump.  Whether it will be all to the good for America remains to be seen.

[Ljube]

America would be great again.

[This account no longer in use.]

I'd have committed suicide by then.

[#TheShadowyAbyss]

Utter chaos

[pbrower2a]

Nostalgia for Dubya.

[NeverAgain]

He'll be blocked by most of Congress, have awful mid-terms, and finally lose to Liz Warren or another Democrat.

[EliteLX]

Apart from typical "America turns into a microwave" rhetoric, he would most likely be impeached within his first two years in office.

Many of his proposals would drastically stumble in congress, and he would have the most controversial two years in the white house we've ever seen in modern politics. It would be quite a mess, not on as epic proportions as "it's immediately WW3", but most certainly a mess in DC. Would scar the GOP in 2020 extremely bad.

[Holmes]

Dems have a great 2018 midterm and 2020 election and then proceed to gerrymander the hell out of states where it was done to them.

[Maxwell]

I suspect he will follow the formula of the last two Presidents - Low approval ratings, but when faced with a potential opponent in 2020, wins narrowly but surprisingly.

[couchpotato07]

The country is in dire need for some change, and Trump would definitely bring change... Just not sure if it would be in the correct direction.
At first, Trump's presence in the elections felt like the circus was in town. But the circus is STILL in town and he\s still there. Are people going to wisen up at some point or are we in for some great deception in a few months?

[Maxwell]

What's there to wisen up to? The actual policies the GOP candidates put out actually make LESS SENSE than Trump's.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

America is going to be great again, unlike the loser OP. By the way, such an original thread. If I had your cell phone number, I'd give it out at a rally, but you are probably too low energy to answer.

[Holmes]

I suspect he will follow the formula of the last two Presidents - Low approval ratings, but when faced with a potential opponent in 2020, wins narrowly but surprisingly.

Obama's win wasn't narrow tho.

[Maxwell]

I suspect he will follow the formula of the last two Presidents - Low approval ratings, but when faced with a potential opponent in 2020, wins narrowly but surprisingly.

Obama's win wasn't narrow tho.

It was narrow in the historical context of Presidential elections, and in the context of President's attempts at re-election. It's only not narrow when we think of what it looked like before it actually happened.

[pbrower2a]

I suspect he will follow the formula of the last two Presidents - Low approval ratings, but when faced with a potential opponent in 2020, wins narrowly but surprisingly.

Obama's win wasn't narrow tho.

It was narrow in the historical context of Presidential elections, and in the context of President's attempts at re-election. It's only not narrow when we think of what it looked like before it actually happened.

Until 2012 this was true:

Since 1908, Presidential winners had  won either at least 66.5% (Taft in 1908) or no more than 56.4% of the electoral vote (Kennedy in 1960). The electoral vote is either close -- or it isn't -- as a rule. For more than a century no Presidential winner had won a percentage of the electorate close to the mean result in the area of 60-62% despite profound changes in the electorate, statewide loyalties to Parties, economics, and technologies of communication and transportation. Apparently a campaigner slightly behind makes subtle changes in his campaign and makes things close; one way behind typically has few chances to win and knows it. In between? One gambles and typically makes things closer (Ford in 1976) or gambles and loses more severely (McCain 2008).

In 2012 Obama got very close to the mean of results in the Electoral College, which is an unlikely result. Go figure.   

[Attorney General, LGC Speaker, and Former PPT Dwarven Dragon]

Trump will have declared himself dictator for life.

[🦀🎂🦀🎂]

Will it will make a lot of international politics very interesting indeed.

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

Utter chaos

Ooh! Chaos Candidate!

[pbrower2a]

Brain drain!

[Asian Nazi]

America would be great again.