What does the future hold for Donald Trump? - threadbans in OP

Just on your last point so if the GOP do play by the rules. What should they do and also what should their ultimate goal be? Is it a one party system, a trump dictatorship or what did you envision it being?

It's interesting to see a Trump supporter, and how anything Trump does can be rationalised. It seems more like a brainwashed cult, or Trump religion, than anything else, and it's certainly not democracy. It's a bit ironic how Trump, and his like, call the democrats 'communist' (thought he obviously doesn't have a clue what communism is), when his brand of anti-democracy is closer to a one party communist system, and where the actual election outcome doesn't count, and the only thing that does count is that he says he won. The man doesn't seem to have a shred of decency, and is clearly delusional, and many of his followers have either followed him into delusion or are so biased that they allow themselves to support his nonsense while still possibly trying to hold decent views on other things (though I'd wonder about that)!

All in all this MAGA stuff is backfiring as far as I can see. What example to any other country in the world is the US holding up? With a good percentage of one of the two main parties believing that the election was 'stolen' and acting on it, with guns everywhere against an imaginary enemy, with religious people expressing views and bigotry that have no place in any religion, with the absolute car crash of a response to Covid that made US excess deaths way above most developed countries in the world. How can any US citizen point to China, or most anywhere else, and somehow claim the moral high ground, despite countries like China not having a system you would envy? Makes me appreciate living in Ireland / Europe.

Republicans should learn from the Democrats that in order to get their agenda though they need to take a win at any cost attitude, and the hell with anything and everything else. In US politics for the last two decades it seems good guys finish last. Just look at the Russia, Russia, Russia hoax nonsense, that democrats knew from the start was total bullcrap and even invented by themselves, pushed for 4+ years and used as the basis for what appears to a soft coup against Trump and impeachment. Would you really fault the GOP if they begin to play by the Democrat's rules?

There has been Russian influence on elections for decades, and it is never aimed at only one party. Should the FBI have meticulously investigated Hillary Clinton's campaign and everyone involved with it in addition to Trump's, and even Joe Biden's, because we all know there is Russian influence involved?

What... do you think American's walk around touting guns like it's the old wild west? Yeah, the mainstream media likes glorify those rare occurrences when they see them in order to make you think that is the case... it sells newspapers, as the old saying goes. Once in the last 5 years I saw one guy in a home improvement center with a holstered pistol on his belt. And in my state open carry is allowed. I think you've said you have been to America. How many Americans have you seen walking around inn public openly carrying guns? Come on... You're better than that!

It's a Right here in America, that is not abused by I'd wager 99.99% of the population... and one Trump supports, as does the majority of Americans.

That was a very narrow investigation, primarily regarding her private email containing classified government emails to another private email account of her assistant, Huma Abedin. And the FBI allowed her to delete as many emails as she wanted to ahead of time. Also, the FBI allowed her to use her own people to investigate her bathroom server. Can you imagine if Trump in the investigation said. Yeah, FBI I'll give you my emails AFTER I've had time to delete anything I wanted. And if you want to investigate my campaign server, you MUST use the company I pick to do the the inquiry. The FBI investigation into Hillary Clinton was a farce as far as I'm concerned. Plus the FBI still found Classified and Top Secret emails on private email accounts... against the law, and nothing was done to her. So spare me the FBI investigated Clinton... it was laughable.

Sorry, I'd like to respond, but I'm not allowed to comment unless it's Trump related.

Thanks I think, Black Swan. But you need to be corrected as you assume too much and quite incorrectly for that matter. I don't watch Fox News (except on election days, and then I keep switching between FNC and MSNBC), or Breitbart News, or even listen to Trump. I get the vast majority of my news about Trump and the Right from Realclearpolitics.com, allsides.com, 2 conservative news entities, and 2 liberal news entities. I make my decisions and opinions after balancing out what I read from both sides and I enjoy reading how both sides report so differently on current affairs. I dunno... maybe I'm just overeducated and too in tune with all that is going on politically.

An aside... I've recently watched the movies Children of Men, and Snowpiercer. Excellent representations of Orwellian societies. Here is a question for your group. Liberal run urban cities are about the closest thing to Orwellian structure there is here, yet they are almost all hellholes for all but the affluent and about as far from Utopia as you can get here. Why is that?

Trump and all other former US Presidents are not above the law. But we both know the Legislative Branch of the government often works against the president for pure political reasons, the 2 purely political impeachments of Trump are prime examples, and Executive Privilege helps guard from compulsory process of the legislative or judicial branches of the government, and maintains the separation of powers.

I lived through Watergate. The crooks and those who masterminded it should have been arrested. But the spying of the opposing campaigns was nothing new. John F Kennedy was great at it. Nixon was stupid and got caught in the cover-up as he had nothing to do with the break-in. It would have been better for him to have taken the tapes out on the Whitehouse lawn and burned them. Nowadays they just gain FISA warrants to spy on the other campaign by fraudulent means… and get away with it.

 Do you think all the high ranking democrats, included Obama who demanded to be kept abreast of the spying as it happened according to sources, should be prosecuted, for their part in the apparent criminal FISA warrant by lies, deceit, and forgeries to spy on Trump’s campaign?

And there is no similarities between Capone and Nixon investigations to the aids, advisors, and associates of Donald Trump. Ridiculous.