He was on CNN today and said
Well no, the Constitution is supposed to be free of religious influence, hence the whole separation of church and state thing. Regardless, it's starting. The fear campaign, the alarmism. I'm not saying they're aren't issues we are having with Islam and that no concern is warranted, but he is crossing over into hate. Why am I talking about a ban? Because Kris Kobach, the favourite for Attorney General confirmed the Trump team is talking about it. I defy anyone to defend any of this.
Something that article fails to point out: that Obama is quite popular. He's actually above average in terms of popularity for a President at this point in his final term. Meanwhile, the Republican congress has a popularity of 13%. Oh well. Perhaps the reason for Trump's victory is more than a repudiation of Obama, it was a repudiation of the system, and it certainly didn't hurt that the Democrats put forth a historically awful nominee.Rush Limbaugh (and others) have been talking about the depth of the Democrat Party defeat with this election, and how it is not a fluke, it is the repudiation of Obama and the Left.
"In Eight Years, Barack Obama has Obliterated the Democrat Party in Record Numbers."
Quote from that article:
"Under President Obama, Democrats have lost over 900 state legislature seats, 12 governors, 69 House seats, 13 Senate seats."
That's not from just this election, that's since 2010 onward. So over the last 3 election cycles, this is what's been occurring.
This article explains that now only 4 states have both Governors and Legislatures that are controlled by Democrats: California, Oregon, Hawaii, and Rhode Island. Every other state has either a split legislature or is fully controlled by Republicans (both Governors and Legislature).
George Will says that the Supreme Court should now be able to tilt conservative for the next 25 years.
You know how liberals keep saying that in 25 to 30 years, as whites become more and more a minority, that Republicans will become obsolete? This article argues otherwise. Instead of the "last gasp of angry white voters", Trump made gains in minorities (the article points out, among other statistics, that 1 in 3 Latino males votes for Trump). Turns out every demographic, from Latinos to blacks to white and everything inbetween, are in favor of a candidate promising more jobs and economic growth.
There's some good quotes in an article by Jonathan Martin at the New York Times: "Pulling Democrats back to 'It's the Economy, Stupid'".
So are the Democrats being set up for obscurity, and will the Republicans control Washington D.C. for decades to come?
Back in 2004, after George W. Bush won re-election and with the number of Republicans increasing in both the House and the Senate, I had a liberal friend who was pretty sure that the Democrats were spineless and unable to oppose the Republicans, and therefore he anticipated the Republicans would rule Washington D.C. for the next 30 years. How quickly the tide turned - in 2006, the Democrats made gains and in 2008, Obama took office.
But after 2012, I was the one who was left wondering if that whole "changing demographics" thing was true and if we were going to be in a period where Democrats controlled Congress for decades to come. And now some pundits want us to believe this election is the start of 30 years of conservatism. I don't know if I buy it. Trump may be the 2nd coming of Ronald Reagan, but even the popular Reagan had Democrats running Congress for all 8 years of his presidency.
I guess the answer is: wait and see.
Dreaming in technicolour. Good luck getting a single Muslim voter if these proposals that appear to be real are made law. Read the links I've posted previously, and look at the people who Trump is naming to his administration.Stop and frisk is deeply unpopular among minorities, and yet it appears that it's going to be a national thing. The only way this could happen is if Trump beats Lincoln in terms of being a president and does such an unbelievably good job that not a single person in their right mind would dare be a liberal. In other words, not gonna happen.
If it was possible to figure out a formula for a party to stay in power for a generation, someone would have figured it out already in the past 238 years. People in democratic countries go back and forth between parties, it's what we do. It would be insane to think that could happen, and even more insane considering the GOP is about to swear in an historically unpopular president.
That doesn't take into account changing ways of thinking. There is always a recoil and backlash to current ways of thinking, and the backlash can sometimes become the new way of thinking. The far right days of the 2000s fuelled the liberal boom and carried Obama into the White House. Now there is backlash against the massive political correctness that has gone on, and the pendulum swung the other way. It'll go back to the left at some point. Thinking the GOP will hold onto power is not only fanciful thinking, it's dangerous. One party should NEVER hold onto power that long, that is the death of democracy. We need ways of thinking to change, and we need the right and left to keep each other honest. God help any country if one party held onto power that long.
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