The Hill - "It's time we start thinking about post-Trump America"

[orangecrush]

"Of course, we don't get to know how things will actually go down. But it's not looking good for this White House. Many of us have watched a neighborhood restaurant cling for dear life, despite its poor food and terrible service. One day, we drive by to find the front door boarded up. It's a fact of life that organizations can't continue to run the way the executive branch is being run right now and remain viable.

Rather than seizing on each mini-crisis, lawmakers, journalists and everyday people need to start thinking about the bigger picture. How would team Trump take the blow of a failed presidency? Very hard.

Now, the adults in the room need to step up and send a message: This will be difficult for many of you, but you all need to understand that there will be other leaders. Trump isn't the only one out there.

Then, those leaders need to find the courage of conviction and come forward with an alternative vision for people who mistakenly believe that Trump is the only one who really "gets" them.

Politics is a buffet of options, not a do-or-die proposition. When things don't go our way, we need to regroup and find opportunities in the disappointment. Let's hope that the phoenix will rise from the ashes of this crisis in American democracy. If we can see that future for ourselves from both sides of the aisle, we might well get there."


https://www.google.com/amp/thehill.com/opinion/white-house/399344-its-time-we-start-thinking-about-post-trump-america%3famp

[donkeypoofed]

1. Sorry to say, but getting Spanky out is Thing 1

Thing 2 will have to wait a bit and is not yet urgent or imminent. First things first!!

[orangecrush]

2. True

[CanonRay]

3. Maybe we can find another racist, narcissistic prima donna

Paging Jefferson Davis...

[Different Drummer]

4. I hate to tell them, but Trump does not "get" them.

He just found out what they wanted him to say, said it, and they fell for it.

[Initech]

5. Restaurant? No the republicans have turned our government into the shady furniture store next door.

You know the one in your city that always has a gigantic "GOING OUT OF BUSINESS!!!!!11!!1!" sign on it? The one that's run by shady salesmen and has "all sales are final" signs everywhere? And then they get replaced with even shadier owners who really want you to buy that termite infested TV cabinet that's been on clearance for the last 2 decades. That's what we are right now. Just waiting for the last day.

[hatrack]

9. I'll show you what the GOP has created (via Martin Scorcese)

[frazzled]

6. If only it were The Hill

It’s just an opinion piece by a contributor, a law professor at the University of Baltimore. (An opinion I hope comes to pass but do not take as inevitable.) We might see tomorrow the exact opposite argument from a Trump supporting opinion contributor in The Hill.

I think we should tag posts as either Op-Ed ( anybody’s opinion) or Editorial (the editorial board’s opinion), not just the name of the paper. It gives people hope that the press is taking a stand ... which it’s not.

[Cartoonist]

10. The Hill is running another article

I'm not sure if it originated with them. It told how the GDP proves Trump's economic genius and historians better take note.

[empedocles]

7. A more immediate 'thinking', is what if traitortrump loses the House

. . . and traitortrump goes wild - refusing to recognize the November election results, . . . , . . ., . . . , and besides all that, tries to . . . , etc.

[Different Drummer]

8. I can imagine a scenario wherein he loses in 2020 and refuses to accept the results. n/t

[murielm99]

11. I can imagine him refusing the accept the results

of the midterms. We may have to fight to seat every Democrat who wins. We can't give up, whether it is voter suppression, broken or inadequate numbers of voting machines, or outright theft.

[orangecrush]

14. I can imagine him refusing

to recognize the results and finally being hauled away in cuffs by the FBI.

[struggle4progress]

13. It matters not what he himself "recognizes" or "refuses to recognize" regarding that

[UTUSN]

12. I've been thinking of post-SHITLER America for more than two years

[orangecrush]

15. And fondly pining for

The pre tRump years.