After this nightmare, I am now inclined toward states rights. I know this is terribly selfish,

[Grey Lemercier]

2. I am dead serious when i say this.....

If 2018 and 2020 go in the following manner:

2018 - Rethug House majority barely dented and a 60 (or near) seat Rethug Senate Majority, and state races barely shift

2020- Shitgibbon is re-elected, Rethugs retain large majorities at all state levels (including legislatures, thus post 2020 Census redistricting guarantees Rethug US House till at least 2032), plus House and Senate

and

SCOTUS- Ginsberg dies or retires, Breyer goes too, (with added bad possible bonus of Kennedy gone too) and Trump picks those 2 or 3 MORE seats (thus 7-2 RW majority for 10, 15, 20 years)


Then California is insane to not start the process of looking at secession. The entire West coast in fact, maybe other hard Blue states as well. If all those above possibilities actually occur, the USA will take multiple decades to just get back to where they are now. It will be head top to to foot bottom a militaristic, oligarchic gangster capitalist, racist, homophobic, misogynistic, out of control fascist theocracy. De jure, not just de facto, with systemic turn-around well beyond a mere decade or 2 event horizon of correction.

Added fact to show slow rate of change (remember this was supposedly a huge CHANGE election):
In 2016 House elections, a total of 380 of the 393 House incumbents seeking re-election won, resulting in an incumbency rate of 96.7%.

If those all above, I repeat, occur, my words are, far from hyperbolic, actually an understatement.