We Democrats absolutely must win the 2020 election...

[Aristus]

2. I think whatever crazed, febrile energy the repubs have right now will die with Trump.

Whatever they see in him doesn't exist in anyone else they might even consider nominating. Trump is a reality-TV sleazeball who appeals to all of the sleazeball reality-TV fans out there. No one else will be able to match his poisoned charisma.

Reagan's admirers knew him from Hollywood, liked that he looked good in a tuxedo, and could shake a leg on the dance floor with Nancy. Those people are all dead. Now repubs want someone who is shabby, poorly-clothed, ill-at-ease, paralyzingly stupid, and as destructive as a dirty nuke.

Adolf Hitler's successor as Fuhrer was Admiral Karl Doenitz, a colorless, humorless, drab naval officer and technocrat. He lasted a few weeks in the job before Germany surrendered, inspired precisely no one outside his own little circle, and is little more than an historical footnote to his crazed predecessor.