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Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
I think he's fucked in that his ability to control his monsters is gone. As the battle starts heating up for who succeeds him in controlling the Republican Party, he's going to become more and more irrelevant, and more and more vulnerable to legal/impeachment action. As his legal problems become more and more laughable and indefensible, the vultures in his own party will be starting to peck at him.
But I'm betting that drama really plays out next fall/winter/spring, from the primary campaign preliminaries to the primaries themselves.
Don't be surprised to see him take primaries from both "true believers" and the "we're just middle-of-the-road bigots, not crazies" crowd. Who thinks Coulter might run?
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Yup. Those vultures want him gone last year.
But who the hell is going to run against him? Gillibrand? Harris? Kasich? Romney? All DOA. Warren oddly seems to have the best chance.
Warren appeals to a sense of fairness. She's blunt, clear in her aims, and has a simple message. When I was watching that Tucker Carlson populist speech people were talking about a few weeks back, the word "fairness" resonated. It's such a simple concept, but so psychologically powerful. It's well known that humans have a strong bent toward fairness, and a strong dislike of unfairness. If you distilled all of Warren's messages and policies to one word, it would be fairness. Crazy as it sounds, I think for all the same reasons Bernie and Trump got so much traction in 2016, Warren will get traction in 2020. She appeals to people's instinctual attraction to fairness.
Fairness is also a great concept to use to attack inequality. Redistribution is a dividing word. It's taking from one and giving to another. But fairness? Fairness is just leveling the playing field to remove the institutional barriers those at the top are employing to take an unfair % of money at cost to the rest of society.
And she already has a great campaign song
by Neil Young. (Most people favor the acoustic versions, but I think the rare electric versions are better.)
