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Originally Posted by becky88
well since you asked let me give you my insights on the midterms. the democrats will win the house with 221 reps. but the senate will remaain red with 53 republican senators. this will be better than reagan did in 82 and just set president trump up for a landslide win in 2020
I don't know why you guys are laughing at this, aside from the word "landslide" this is pretty reasonable if the economy holds until 2020. And even if it doesn't, the Democratic House will be caught between Trump blaming them for not shoveling bailout money into the fire and the Democratic base blaming them for shoveling bailout money into the fire.
Trump is probably too naive to have done this intentionally, but from a purely Machiavellian perspective the Republican tax cut(s) are genius - in an upcoming crisis, whoever is in charge will HAVE to cut taxes even further, and by running up the deficit so high during good times, whoever is in charge will HAVE to gut services in the middle of a recession.
On the Machiavellian flipside, it's probably better for Democrats to fail retaking both the House and Senate in 2018, but be close enough so that if the economy "corrects" between 2018 and 2020, they can sweep both plus the White House. Republicans probably won't get anything else done from 2019-2020 that they couldn't get done from 2017-2018.