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The economy is so-so, with economists expecting a recession shortly after 2020. (I saw two interviews with economists. One was hard-left, the other one was an ultracapitalist who wants to go back to the gold-standard. Both expect a recession in the near future and both blame Trump for that.)
Job-numbers are in line with the Obama-recovery. Nothing extraordinary. (Can you even imagine Trump's outrage when Democrats describe his administration's job-growth as "the Obama-recovery?" )
That healthcare-reform he promised? Repealing Obamacare and replacing it with something better? Didn't happen. Just some superficial changes here and there.
Coal-jobs? Still not coming back.
The wall? Even if Trump somehow finds the money, the litigation will drag this out for years to come. There will be no progress by 2020.
The tax-"reform"? A shit-show of incompetence and laziness that didn't even decrease taxes for ordinary voters and will haunt tax-accountants for years.
North-Korea? Kim Jong-Un tricked Trump into signing the same toothless denuclearization statement NK has signed 5 times before. This is not going anywhere.
Withdrawing from Syria? Only works as long people ignore Assad's torture-dungeons or how the syrian military drops barrel-bombs on civilian regions. Read the reports by Amnesty International.
Draining the swamp? Well, Republicans understood "draining the swamp" as fighting the government that's keeps them from doing whatever they want. So... that would be something, but it will be weird for the Republicans to run as the law&order party while simultaneously attacking the FBI.
(Also, Democrats should co-opt "drain the swamp" by promising to be tougher on the elites. )
Literally the ONLY good thing coming out of the Trump-Presidency, and the only thing he could run on without any lies or caveats, was a land-mark prison-reform.
And his administration failed to notify the public and basically nobody knows that even happened.
Trump was able to attack HRC because he was the underdog. But in 2020 he can't use that shtick.
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)and abortion.
Wounded Bear
(58,666 posts)Worked in 2016.
randr
(12,412 posts)Proud Liberal Dem
(24,414 posts)If he makes it to 2020, I'm not sure that I see a clear path to re-election, esp. with an energized Democratic Party (there's no reason to believe they won't be at this point). He will probably win handily in red state bastions (no surprise) and get the votes of his loyalist "base" of deplorables, but I don't think that he will win the states that he very narrowly won in 2016. I would like to think that enough people- outside of his base- are tired of his routine, tired of the chaos, and believe him to be irredeemable/ineducable at this point and will either stay home or pull the lever for anybody else.
safeinOhio
(32,688 posts)that is all....
Funtatlaguy
(10,878 posts)NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)brooklynite
(94,594 posts)DavidDvorkin
(19,479 posts)Mission accomplished. Dangerous illegal immigrants raping our women.
duforsure
(11,885 posts)To 2020 , and will be gone , and maybe in prison with many others involved where they should be.
Runningdawg
(4,517 posts)Lock up: Any female not currently kissing his ass. Most especially those who are minorities and those who are pro-choice. But always, always, returning to HRC.
Christian nation - We must remove all unbelievers, starting with those gay people. I mean lots of people who study the Bible tell me that's what it says to do, so that's what we are going to do!
rsdsharp
(9,186 posts)ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)He gets people to cheat for him.
"My greatest achievement happened on Tuesday when I turned off Fox at 9am and waddled into the Oval Office by 10:30am." (Where he proceeded to create various paper airplane designs and test them with Mike Pence).
DetlefK
(16,423 posts)ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)"Mike, we need to make our getaway to Moscow. We'll get there by paper airplane!"
Cosmocat
(14,565 posts)Seriously ...
njhoneybadger
(3,910 posts)ooky
(8,924 posts)He will talk about how he has accomplished more than any other President in history, all the jobs he has created, how he is improving the trade deficit, how terrorists are pouring across our border, how he building miles and miles of "wall" to stop them, how good the economy is, unless it goes into recession, in which case he will blame it all on Nancy Pelosi and democrats, etc.
Its going to be more of the same old shit. Its all he knows.
Mr. Quackers
(443 posts)and he won't be questioned, the media will promote it, and his "base" will eat it up.
book_worm
(15,951 posts)he will run on the economy which is what presidents always do. Sure the economy is thanks to Obama, but Americans have notoriously low attention spans and can't remember (it seems) what happened last year. Yes, the economy would be the only thing he could possibly run on.
SeattleVet
(5,477 posts)NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)he's going to run on having the most successful 3 1/2 years ever of any president, king, dictator, emperor, savior, pope, or whatever you want to call them in human history.
Jobs, better than ever. Unemployment, better than ever. Stock market, better than ever. Relations with Russia, better than ever. ISIS, Al Qaeda and MS-13 all defeated, coal jobs coming back, steel plants opening all over, etc, etc.
Sure, it won't be true, but that won't stop him from spewing the BS to fire up his base.