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How much of a backlash will he suffer for his failures. He has failed to deliver on a lot of his key promises which isn’t terribly abnormal except the way trump made his promises then continued to scream about them long after taking office.
At the very least it has to inhibit his ability to rally crowds for a 2020 campaign with a new set of promises, one would help.
I suspect that while avid follows of the news/politics are either hip to the fact Trump is totally full of **** and cannot deliver on his promises (normal people), or simply don't care or aren't interested in results (a lot of Deplorables, happy enough just to not have a Democratic President and/or simply into the Trump style alone) --- there are some low information or not that attentive voters who will have the false promises become clearer to them over time. It's a slow process. Is it a huge number of people? Probably not. But Trump didn't have a huge coalition, so losing small percentage of voters with each **** up and promise-not-kept will eventually make him politically impotent/unelectable. Not building the wall might lose him 1 of every 250 deplorables. Not raining manufacturing jobs from the sky all over the Midwest loses him another 1 out of every 150 of his voters. Being an unhinged clownshow loses him 1 out of every 150 Trump voters. Etc. etc. Eventually add it up, and he'll lose some significant percentage of his voters, and he can't really afford to lose any of them.
I agree that in 2018 the GOP will just campaign against Hillary again and in 2020 Trump will have new enemies and new stabbed-in-the-back-theories and new amazing bull**** to peddle, and he'll win some back. I am not predicting Democratic waves necessarily. But again, he needs to win everyone from his ~2016 coalition back. Needs to fade population/demographic shifts (e.g., older, whiter votes dying).
Last edited by DVaut1; 08-03-2017 at 05:21 PM.