by vatas wrote:Piece of trivia: if Trump loses, it would be first time incumbent president loses the re-election since 1980 when Jimmy Carter lost to Ronald Reagan.
Also the two parties have essentially been taking turns to have a president for two terms since 1992 election, this trend would also be broken.
1992: George H.W. Bush lost to Bill Clinton
That has been the general trend dating back since the start of The Republic. There's been spots where the incumbent hasn't been reelected, and once when the incumbent was elected for more than two terms. (FDR was only one that successfully ran more than two, and seems like only one or two had even tried before that.)
painhertz wrote:No. We have these wacky things called "jobs" that don't allow us to spend all hours of the night burning down stuff because we're angry.
Well, if you believe some editorialists, that's just what's going to happen no matter what--the police protests will actually turn into a massive insurgency of complete anarchy, or that the die-hard Trump supporters will rise up against "a fixed election" starting a new civil war. I've long said since high school that another one was coming in my lifetime. A society can't subvert whole classes of people and not face outright rebellion.
Zentetsuken wrote:I guess that's why major cities across the country are boarding up businesses
they are afraid all the upstanding trump supporting citizens will work so hard that their windows will explode via the force of wholesome hardworking gumption
That would more likely be from the "not quite as peaceful as they could be" police protests across the country. (The other won't come until we get a "rigged" election result.)
@shubla: will agree that Trump is good for one thing--comedy gold. As the saying goes... "What the world needs now is..." fill in the blank "...like I need another hole in my head." In this case... the blank being "four more years of Trumpism."
