Keeping with the Trump meme….
The prospect of that one questions sends shivers through Americans that are concerned about the future of this country.
It is closing in on the true start of the 2024 election cycle….and the big news (for some) is that it looks like another draw down between Trump and Biden….and that would be about as boring as watching flies mate.
The news does not look good for Biden…..his numbers fluctuate but remain rather low for a seating president….so the possibility of Trump winning a second term are not as far-fetched as some would like to believe.
Donald Trump is facing two indictments, with the potential for more. Political wisdom may have once suggested the former president’s bid for a second White House term would be nothing but a pipe dream. But most of us know better by now.
Trump is not only in a historically strong position for a nonincumbent to win the Republican nomination, but he is in a better position to win the general election than at any point during the 2020 cycle and almost at any point during the 2016 cycle.
No one in Trump’s current polling position in the modern era has lost an open presidential primary that didn’t feature an incumbent. He’s pulling in more than 50% of support in the national primary polls, i.e., more than all his competitors combined.
Three prior candidates in open primaries were pulling in more than half the vote in primary surveys in the second half of the calendar year before the election: Democrat Al Gore and Republican George W. Bush in 2000 and Democrat Hillary Clinton in 2016. Gore remains the only nonincumbent to win every single presidential nominating contest, while Bush and Clinton never lost their national polling advantage in their primaries.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/30/politics/trump-second-term-president-election-2024/index.html
Okay we have that bit of horror….then what would that second term look like? Since the climate is the big deal in the news…..how would Donald the Orange deal with the situation?
Look, there are many reasons why former president Donald Trump, who has been arrested a lot, winning the 2024 presidential election would be catastrophic for this country. You know, what with the accusation from the DOJ that he stole our country’s secrets and kept top-secret documents in a bathroom. We don’t need to touch on that because guess what! A new and horrifying aspect of his second term has just dropped and it’s a doozy!
See, a bunch of his toadies have created the 2024 Trump Administration’s policy on climate change and I know what you’re thinking, it’s not just one sheet of paper with the following typed in 82-point Comic Sans font: Not real.
The 920-page blueprint, whose hundreds of authors include former Trump administration officials, would go far beyond past GOP efforts to slash environmental agencies’ budgets or oust “deep state” employees.
Called Project 2025, it would block the expansion of the electrical grid for wind and solar energy; slash funding for the Environmental Protection Agency’s environmental justice office; shutter the Energy Department’s renewable energy offices; prevent states from adopting California’s car pollution standards; and delegate more regulation of polluting industries to Republican state officials.
Trump’s Second Term Would Doom the Climate
If his plan is that horrendous for the climate then how good could his other ‘stands’ be….and how will this country survive?
I am not optimistic at all….especially if Trump wins….but then I am not a big fan of Biden and his bunch of paid agents.
I weep for this country….we are heading into some trying times.
I Read, I Write, You Know
“lego ergo scribo”
On paper, it might seem impossible that Trump could win again. But I think back to 2016, when I thought he was a ridiculous buffoon who could never possibly become president.
Best wishes, Pete.
I agree with you. chuq, I am not sold on either of them… although a Biden re-elect is less about chaos. My Biden issues are more about age.. and we should be thinking a Biden re-election is a Harris presidency.
While I care about the domestic and international disaster repeat of his last 4 years in the White House, and the likelihood he’s on a personal vendetta to get even… he still needs a control of either the House or the Senate to do anything.
But here’s to my larger picture… as long as the election is without fraud and determined to have been fair.. then it’s up to the “We, the people…”, even if “We, the people…” vote for a complete idiotic schmuck a second time. The linchpin to our American democracy is doing it according to the Constitution. The Founding Fathers never guaranteed everything would be a bed of roses. Democracy can be a messy thing, and “We, the people…” are made up of humans, subject to mistakes of selection, domestic cultural whims, and emotional bias. The Constitution is a rules of the road to “fix” things and recover… or not.
Agree with your “we the people” comment….everyone except Trump has now acknowledged in court that they know for a fact he lost the election legally.
I believe you are correct, John R.
Great points….my problem is with the lie of bi-partisan decisions…..that has not work out well in the past….and yes if Biden does not have a Congress then he will be spinning his wheels. chuq
I have to disagree a bit with your Biden comments, as he has been an ethical, honest leader – whether we agree with all aspects of his agenda or not…having a rotten son is not a crime – it’s just a sad commentary about how easy it is to try to “game” the system because greed is rampant in Washington across all parties.
I will admit he is more ethical than Trump but I have watched him for many years….he is a corporate Dem……chuq
True…
Because of Trump’s highly-active “Shadow Government” now entrenched in various levels of government on the federal and the state level…judges, secretaries of state, governors, local dignitaries, etc., and because of the rise of the “No Labels” fiasco (Another Ralph Nader Style of democracy trashing, and becausde of the insanity of 91% of the Republicans and the laziness of the democrats, there is no doubt– no doubt at all that T-Rump is going to be in the Oval Office in 2024 or 2025 –There is no need to discuss it, there is no need to ruminate about it, there is no need to worry about it because it IS GOING TO HAPPEN!
No Labels has nothing to do with Nader….Joe Lieberman is the con artist behind that travesty…..there is always a need to discuss or just throw up your arms a concede defeat…..I shall not do so. chuq
Nader’s thing was to draw votes away from one party for the benefit of the other party and then run away ….this smells an awfully lot the same kind of scheme.
That is what he did but I do not think that was the original intent. chuq
He did it more than once.
Golly, John.. you almost sound like a Trump Conservative spewing conspiracy theories about Biden Liberals. 🙂 As I said.. if the election is done fairly and honestly.. then the country “deserves” who they elect… and the consequences. I would have it no other way.
When conservatives have a good idea, I am not above entertaining it, In today’s climate, with all the back and forth about rigged elections and what have you and with the propensity of the main stream media to publish only what raises their bottom line …I am not sure anybody is certain whether elections are fair or not these days. But statistics suggest that America is edging ever closer to the desire to be ruled by autocracy so we shall see.