re: #55 TedStriker
Even if a Democrat along the lines of Hillary or Obama gets elected POTUS in 2020 and tries to roll back not only the external damage, but also the internal damage, Trump has done and will do for the rest of his term (however long that may be), the rest of the world will be very skittish about taking us as a country at our word…and they would be justified, because eventually, they’ll be a GOP POTUS that will do even more damage than Trump and knows what they’re doing in the course of it. Our allies and the rest of the world will be all like, “fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.”, and I can’t say as I’d blame them.
The American Century, as we knew it, is stone-cold dead and it will take decades to fix…if we can.
It will take liberals getting tough and guaranteeing themselves permanent political power, as Ian Millhiser posted. Pack the courts. Gerrymander. Close their early voting. Deny them seats. Throw them out of legislatures where possible. Do everything possible to change the law to favor them, then change the law even more. Make it clear to the world that these GOoPers are never, ever going to be allowed to come back.