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2026. 2028 And Thereafter
The restored Trump era is fully underway. It will be one for the ages but it will end because everything eventually has to be over one way or another.
Meantime, we have to peer beyond despair and begin working on the future. When Barack Obama delivered the keynote address at the 2004 Democratic Convention in Boston he was a forty-two-year-old state senator from Illinois. Four years later he was elected President of the United States.
Campaigning in all fifty states for the 2026 midterms will begin almost immediately. There will be 435 House elections, and one-third of the Senate will be running as well. Democrats will choose candidates for thirty-six gubernatorial contests and positions down the ballot for legislatures and indispensable local services like schools and safety. There will, of course, be candidates carrying the MAGA banner, which is what the Grand Old Party has become.
The 2028 presidential campaign will begin as soon as the mid-terms are over. Trump will almost certainly try to get a third term despite the Constitution’s explicit prohibition in the Twenty-second amendment. We’ve learned never to underestimate Trump’s defiance of the norms.
So, everyone who wants there to be a future after this era should be focused on who will carry to victory a revived Democratic party against MAGA and what remains of the Republicans with any residue of independence.
It can only happen if we get started now, right now.
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Coming Tuesday: Media Mayhem. And Then There is… C-SPAN. Yes, C-SPAN
Change is organic…Where are the Whigs, Bull Moose,etc?
The GOP is gone. Maybe it's time for a replacement for the Democrats as well. The old parameters--left versus right--don't really apply anymore. Conservatives are no longer really conservative. They act more in the style of Ayatollah Khomeini, pretending to be conservatives while turning increasingly radical, and in the end, simply dedicated to overthrowing the existing system in order to gain personal advantage. What is a liberal? Someone who believes in civilization and reason? Social interactions have moved on, and yet we are still trying to operate in a political-social framework that dates back to the 18th and 19th centuries. Maybe it is time for a rethink.