re: #93 Mike Lamb

This isn’t exactly a hot take, but my prediction is that Trump gets absolutely curb stomped in the general, with huge margins run up in CA and the NE. If Trump eked out another electoral victory, could the country handle such an egregious, systemic “fuck you”? Leave aside the additional damage that Trump would do representing a far right minority, after being made to feel bullet proof by the Senate. The population centers would no longer matter.

Basically true, IMO. Which is why I think whoever the Democratic candidate is next year has GOT to craft a campaign strategy that is going to target the enough of the right states to swing the EC vote decisively (sorry, foax: anti-democratic anachronism as it might be, we can’t fix that system in time, and have to work with it), Trump losing NE, CA, or NY by 70-30 margins isn’t going to kick him out of the WH: nor will even the hugest popular-vote margin (since we’ve seen how much Trump/the GOP cares about that).