DrLove
Diamond Member
Former congressman Steve Israel (D-NY) was on Morning Joe today. At first I thought that his concept was far fetched, but after Michael Steele agreed with him and explained why, I suddenly realized it was plausible. Put absolutely nothing beneath Mango Mussolini. He doesn't care about legislating and loves creating villains. Shutting down the government in September thus ensuring a D takeover in both Houses may be the only way he can win again in 2020 (assuming he lasts that long of course ;-)
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MOAR:
Is Trump colluding with Democrats?
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Is Donald Trump is colluding with Nancy Pelosi instead of Vladimir Putin? Is he a machiavellian savant who knows that his only path to reelection in 2020 is to help elect a Democratic congressional majority in 2018?
Those are the only rational explanations for his endorsing, just 99 days before a tight midterm election, a shutdown of the federal government if Democrats don’t fund a border wall between the United States and Mexico. (Put aside the fact that congressional Republicans control spending. Smart strategies aren’t necessarily fact-checked strategies.)
There’s no sound reason for a shutdown threat, so I’m sticking with my original theory that our Republican president is secretly rooting for the election of a Democratic majority. He may even be taking a dive for Democrats. On the political street corners where Trump loiters, where thuggery meets conspiracy, it all makes perfect sense. At some point, he’ll run out of people to blame for his failures.
In 2020, he won’t be able to cast down-ballot blame on his own party, or run against his own congressional majority. This president is in desperate search of a foil, and what better foil than Democrats in control of Congress. He needs two years of preaching that he’s the only thing standing between survival and one-party control by the weak-kneed, ICE-melting, big-spending, crime-coddling cadre of socialists led by Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
Those are the only rational explanations for his endorsing, just 99 days before a tight midterm election, a shutdown of the federal government if Democrats don’t fund a border wall between the United States and Mexico. (Put aside the fact that congressional Republicans control spending. Smart strategies aren’t necessarily fact-checked strategies.)
There’s no sound reason for a shutdown threat, so I’m sticking with my original theory that our Republican president is secretly rooting for the election of a Democratic majority. He may even be taking a dive for Democrats. On the political street corners where Trump loiters, where thuggery meets conspiracy, it all makes perfect sense. At some point, he’ll run out of people to blame for his failures.
In 2020, he won’t be able to cast down-ballot blame on his own party, or run against his own congressional majority. This president is in desperate search of a foil, and what better foil than Democrats in control of Congress. He needs two years of preaching that he’s the only thing standing between survival and one-party control by the weak-kneed, ICE-melting, big-spending, crime-coddling cadre of socialists led by Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
MOAR:
Is Trump colluding with Democrats?