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| 2020-02-17 | |
While preventing a split in the party may have been successful, as some Democrats claim, this has come at the cost of its image in the eyes of US public opinion. Trump and Republican supporters succeeded in portraying repeated attempts by Democrats to indict and impeach Trump as a personal vendetta, prioritising narrow partisan interests over the public interest. From the perspective of Democratic supporters, policies that the party’s left-wing are pushing, such as leniency on illegal immigration, expanding healthcare without thinking of the cost, and restricting the purchase and possession of personal firearms, are all policies opposed by Republicans and Trump. These policies are mostly supported by Democratic voters, and the dominance of the left-wing camp within the Democratic Party — as clearly demonstrated by the attempt to impeach Trump — raises an alarm about the future of the party. The Democratic Party is already suffering because it has not yet decided on a strong candidate to run against Trump in the presidential race, and even worse, some party members are still adamant on continuing to battle Trump and ignore the Congress acquittal. They view him as guilty and therefore he should be slandered in the coming months, in the hope this will impact his chances of winning a second term in November. Periodic opinion polls conducted by Reuters reveal that the impeachment trial did not impact Trump’s popularity among Americans, although it was broadcast live. Some even predict Democrats will also lose in the long-term, and they will not be able to truly contest the elections for the White House even beyond a second term for Trump. Michael Kimmage, a history professor at the Catholic University of America, said as much on the website Politico on 5 February, when he was asked what he expects historians will write about the impeachment trial and this era 50 years from now. He responded: “I think they will say the following: The Trump era began with Trump’s election in 2016, hit a high point with his acquittal on impeachment in 2020 and ended with President Mike Pompeo’s 2028 loss to the young Midwestern Governor Tom Wilkinson.” | |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #5 The Democratic Party is already suffering because it has not yet decided on a strong candidate to run against Trump... The problem is that their strongest candidate is Pierre Delecto. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2020-02-17 11:49 |
| #4 No they just more invested in methodologies not based on convincing legit voters to vote for them. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-02-17 04:29 |
| #3 The US Democratic Party has fallen under the influence of a generation of leftist More of an inadvertent reveal than a fall. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2020-02-17 02:34 |
| #2 The people who elected Boris had a hand in it's destruction. It's open for discussion whether they were too trustworthy... |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2020-02-17 02:30 |
| #1 It's not the "Trump Era." Trump is just a harbinger, a prophet in the wilderness. The real name for this new era is yet to be created. At this point all we know is that a post-Cold War era of unparalleled corruption and bogus, absurd, "global citizen" virtue-signaling has come to a close. Trump, Boris Johnson, Viktor Orban, several other bit players all had a hand in killing it. But what comes next is yet to be written. |
| Posted by: Lex 2020-02-17 00:13 |