My fear about Trump (remember GWB)

[edhopper]

in 2001 GWB, the unelected President, was on his way to a failed Presidency. His approval numbers continued to fall and he went from one misstep and scandal to another....Then 9/11 happened and criticizing or opposing the President was verboten. And we had to watch as he spent the next 7 years almost destroying the country.

As Trump trundles toward the biggest failure in Presidential history, I fear an event could happen that would give him and the GOP Congress the cover to completely decimate this country.

[luvMIdog]

1. I think many are worried about that. I know I am

[shraby]

2. They are too incompetent to accomplish it and get away with it.

[edhopper]

3. I am not talking about

Make it Happen or Let it Happen.
It would happen through pure incompetence. But once it does, we will suffer the consequenes.

[dalton99a]

4. W was a bumbling simpleton and people gave him the benefit of the doubt

Trump is an evil liar with a long documented history. His support would be strictly partisan.

[edhopper]

5. I think if

something like 9/11 were to happen again, you would find the calls to stand behind the President deafening.

[flying_wahini]

6. I worry about that too.

I can see Congress shoveling all support behind Trump to keep him in and going so that the first 100 days is just old news.

[Bleacher Creature]

7. Bush knew how to stay on script.

I still can't stand him, but he was disciplined and mostly followed the script. And when he did try to ad lib, it mostly came off as goofy and bumbling.

There's no chance of that with Trump. He'll either do or say something offensive in a way that loses him support as quickly as it builds up.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

8. Bush was infinitely harder to demonize than Chump because he didn't deliberately piss people off

If something bad happens at least half the country will blame him.

[Alpeduez21]

9. The war on the Intelligence Community will help this

because the 'leaks' of classified information is deliberate. The more incompetent the IC looks the less allies will share with the US. The less that is shared the easier it will be for terrorists to slip into the US. Then an attack will occur. Then the authoritarian regime will seriously begin.

I doubt very much there will be midterm elections.