We know what happened after Reagan. George Bush won more or less automatically. Everyone who loved Reagan figured Bush would be the second round of him. Unfortunately, that produced Bill Clinton… which produced George W Bush… which produced Barrack Obama… which has produced Trump.
Each level of presidential term produces a level of another type of presidential term. What Obama did to the country finally sparked people to wake up and when they opened their eyes and saw Trump, it was like a splash of water to the face. This is the guy!
We can believe Trump will win his second term simply due to the insanity of his opposing party. So, let’s assume that happens. We deal with another four years of them trying to impeach him so they can say they ‘saved’ the country and have the power they crave.
Whether or not they are successful at impeaching Trump (and based on their reasons for impeachment, it won’t matter because the Senate won’t play along), they will eventually need to go after his VP Mike Pence so they can ruin him as well. Their end game is to be in full power and they don’t want to wait until an election.
They old adage “give them an inch and they will want a mile” is even deeper than that. Every time they get a little bit of what they want, they attack and demand everything. I used to think that was just hearsay but after the last few years, they have made themselves very obvious and proved that it wasn’t just paranoia.
They truly do want it all and there is no compromise.
They pretend they are bi-partisan in certain areas but if they had full reign, there would be nothing left of what many Americans want; the freedom we were promised when this country was founded.
So what happens after Trump?
Does Pence run for president and, if so, will he win? If he wins, will he be anything even remotely close to what Trump is? I have a hard time believing that simply because he’s a different sort of character and I rarely hear anything about him at all. It’s all Trump, all the time. But believe me, if Pence becomes president, he’ll have his full share of the crap.
If Pence does win, is he just another George Bush who wins automatically because of his predecessor? If that’s the case, what can he do to make sure people rally around him the way they are rallying around Trump?
Then what?
Will anyone be able to win after Trump (or Pence if he’s next) to keep us going in the right direction? There is a lot of talk about how divided the country is, maybe even getting close to Civil War times. If we keep seesawing back and forth with our guy and their guy and our guy and their guy, we may never come together as a country.
I’d like to say “if only they would stop being crazy” none of this would be happening. I don’t know if that’s true but with what Obama did with the several executive orders, which Trump had to undo, that were done to override the proper way of doing things, it seems pretty obvious that they want what they want and they want it now.
In my everyday life, I hear little of all this nonsense. It’s when I tune in on the noise that I get a glimpse into what they are up to. I want to walk away from it all but that leads to another fear.
The more they do what they are doing, the more insane they become and strike out, the more they threaten people and try to smear us into the ground… the more some people will truly tune out and lose faith and stop being involved. They won’t vote or pay attention to what’s happening, and things will slip through their hands.
Finally, with all this talk about our country being divided, I look at those around me and wonder where they’re at. If there is a civil war, what happens then. Are my friends still my friends? Do I still get to go to work or will I get fired if my company feels differently than I feel? How would I know what to do or who to trust? These questions are a glimpse into the complete collapse of our country if the worse happens. Americans have no idea what it’s like to have war on our own land. It would be complete chaos and other countries would surely take advantage of such an opening.
So what happens after Trump?
This post was originally seen on Alexandria (aleksandreia.com).
