• xyzzy@lemm.ee
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    4 days ago

    It would take a 5-10 year depression for enough of them to reach the point that it would make a meaningful difference. Seriously.

    Look at how it went last time. FDR and then his vice president created a 20-year presidential legacy following Hoover’s complete mismanagement of the Great Depression. After that came the 5-star general who defeated Hitler (who ran as a Republican in order to block an isolationist candidate farther on the right), then back to Democrats for another eight years—until giving black people equal rights was a bridge too far for Southern Democrats.

    Basically, Trump would need to destroy this country economically, and have that ruination take hold for many years, before real charge can happen.