Are the Republicans eventually in trouble down the road?

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

I think the Republicans are likely in trouble down the road, but its not guaranteed. A great deal will depend on how (and how effectively) Trump governs.

If he's a disaster, or even if he's in charge while disaster happens, they're toast. They'll have alienated large swathes of voters AND discredited themselves.

If he's effective in the short term, they could be in good shape. Right now, I think President Pussygrabber is going to go on a looting spree like a corporate raider. He'll do immense long-term damage in return for short-term returns for himself and his buddies. He'll try to buy off the voters (shareholders) in the short term, by doing things like cutting taxes and government handouts (in acceptable to Republicans ways) partly by running up the debt, but he'll probably come up with non-debt related schemes, too. Probably lots of privatization coming down the pipe.

The plan will probably be to keep the whole thing moving along at high speed, telling everyone how awesome it is, then bailing out in 4 or 8 years to let the Dems take the wheel right before it crashes. (Which is basically what Dubya tried and failed to do.) IF they can pull it off, the public is obviously dumb enough to buy it.

Probably the biggest threat to such a plan is that Pussygrabber and his cohorts really are clueless. A real crisis in the next year and a half will probably discredit him and the GOP hangers on, too. If I had to bet, that's how I'd go: that Trump ends up being a Hoover for this century.

Real failure by them now will likely lead to a generation out of power down the road. And not that far down the road, either.