Let me be very clear. I voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016 over Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders. I am a centrist. I despise far-left and far-right politics. I am a radical centrist. Regardless of whether the Russian-Putin government meddled in the election, whether Trump associates colluded with Russian government officials and associates to influence the election. Trump won the election, whether you liked it or not.
Some political experts and pundits say that Trump will be the LAST Republican president in the next 30 years. That the next Democratic president will begin a new demographic revolution that will lock the Republican Party out of power for a long time, and it would trickle to the legislative and state levels.
I don't think so. I feel personally that President Donald Trump is just the beginning, not the end of right-wing populism. It has trickled to corporations and entertainment venues (Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, Texans owner Bob McNair, Yankees co-owner/general managing partner Hank Steinbrenner, Yankees president Randy Levine, WWE chair Vince McMahon).
After Trump or Pence, there might be a new Democratic president. That Democratic president, elected in 2020 or 2024 may be center-left, centrist, or far-left (Sanders, Merkley, etc.)
Regardless of who controls the Senate and House of Representatives in 2018, 2020, 2022, 2024, and beyond does not matter.
The pendulum swings and yes, we will have a Democratic president again in the 2020s. But Democrats should not overplay their hands on multicultural identity politics (white privilege, whiteness, etc.) or else they will get some more intelligent, fierce, brash than Trump. That next right-wing populist may not be the typical white male conservative, but a female, a black or Latino individual.
Republicans should not overplay their hands either with the white identity politics and cultural white city suburban ethnic/Midwestern-Southern-Pacific West white rural/suburban resentment. Republicans need to appeal to minority, young white voters, affluent/professional, suburban and female voters or else the Republican Party will be extinct.
Demographics are not destiny. You have to make someone
want to vote for you.
What have you done for me lately?That goes for both parties.
Regardless of Trump's controversial presidency, this is just the beginning of a potential right-wing populism reemerging in the future, not the end.
Trump is not a fluke. Be warned.
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