It all depends upon how terrible Trump will be...if he's moderately terrible yet distracts the voters with his buffoonish antic then the Dems will lose seats
Destroys the Clinton machine, Bush dynasty, Obama's legacy, 16 seasoned politicians (govs/sen), yet still gets dismissed as a joke by his enemies.
These are not mutually exclusive things.
Pretty much. Then again, maybe Bush and his team were masterminds that were ridiculed. No one could stop him until he had already caused his damage.
Statemanship is like a rubberband. The more you press against, the harder the backlash..the only truly succesful politicians are those who break the rubber band. No one has really broken the rubber band without a good reason. There is unrest in the world and people who have been left behind, but most of that unrest is where there used to be Evil Empire TM and those left behind are those no whom many don't want help.
This could be a Bizzaro Return to Normalcy campaign after a flawed progressive campaign has changed much but fallen short.
Harding and Coolidge presided over the outlawing of immigration and alcohol, cutting almost all taxes, putting up tariffs, and a culture of extreme corruption.
