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by anonymousJim12 2525 days ago
On his way out? I despise Trump and everything he stands for. Polls show his numbers only improving with every new controversy he starts. And he still has a lot of levers to pull leading up to the election that will hurt his opponents and expand his base.
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Yeah, I wish he was on the way out. I don't agree that his poll numbers improve with every controversy, but they don't crater the way they should.

But maybe that's understandable, too. "The squad" has become the face of the Democratic Party, and the squad and Trump are neck-and-neck in a race to appeal to two-year-olds. Seems like both sides forgot that two-year-olds can't vote. If the Democrats had the appearance of competence and sanity, they should easily beat Trump, but at the moment, they look equally insane.

If the primary process produces someone who is not extremely left, someone who can look "presidential" rather than getting into a name-calling war with Trump, and someone that actually sounds like they care about the blue-collar voters, Trump should be gone.

Take Pelosi, for instance. It can't be Pelosi, nor someone like her. Pelosi seems to stand for Pelosi being the speaker. She doesn't seem to stand for any particular policies, other than "not Trump, but not something that's going to cost me the speaker job (even if by killing the Dems in the 2020 elections)". That doesn't win many votes in the Rust Belt.

I believe Pelosi will relinquish her speakership in 2020 no matter the outcome of the election. Those are the conditions under which she was voted as Speaker in the first place.

[Even though I do not necessarily agree with you exactly, I tried to restore your comments visibility because of your long standing, seemingly in earnest, HN contributions.]

Thanks. A charitable reading is appreciated.

I had forgotten about her promise to relinquish.