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

He’s not ‘the president’. Don’t mix up using a title that is a tradition with what you think happened a year ago.

3 new subpoenas issued, the net is getting tighter

Doesn't matter.

Democrats will see it for the terrorist act it was.

Republicans will downplay it

His klan will UPplay it as taking back their country from libtards.

Fox will claim anyone who calls it a terrorist attack hates 'Murica.

Nothing will come from any of these. And if footage came out tomorrow of him running in at the head of the crowd of terrorists, braveheart-style and killing a cop, his approval rating among his klan will increase and the Republican Party will cheer him on.

It is hard to see where the Republican party will draw the line. Actually that is a good question (If I do say so myself 😀)

Where WOULD the Republican Party draw the line and disavow Trump? (If there is a line) . I would be interested to know.

I think if it looks like there's definitely going to be a case against him (any of the many that are now proceeding), they'll drop him quick enough.

Hopefully there are still enough rational Republicans who believe in the rule of law. Maybe not though, in which case the whole country is fucked.

It certainly does seem that way alright, doesn't it. As conservative parties globally tend to market themselves as being the Protectors of Moral Standards it is startling how far they will go to protect/ justify their own moral "lapses". Of course each party does the same but, by their nature, more liberal party values are prone to change (That is another debate). But conservative parties tend to have a static, defined "Moral Standard". By their very definition they stand for X.

One only has to look at the UK at the moment. Every week it seems to emerge that they had another party and yet Johnson (actual CLONE of trump :) ) is still in power. Unsurprising.

The line SHOULD be the ridiculous, seditious, conspiratorial, lie about a "stolen election" that spurred a dangerous mob to assault Capitol Hill last year.

if that line isn't the one that's a mark of no return then it's difficult to see what would be.

Arguable that the line should have been well before that. There are over 4 year's worth of examples ..

True, however globally, hard-line conservatives also tend to be complete hypocrites. Very much do as I say, not as I do, regardless of whether it's in the sexual, political or financial sphere. IMO these people are simply fundamentally dishonest and do not engage in good faith (no pun intended), they feel they are engaged in a do-or-die battle with their mortal enemies and have no problem lying their heads off to reach their goals.

To me this is part of the reason Labour (and the moderates in general) keep getting screwed over by the right: they keep trying to engage somewhat honestly with the right, who simply despise them.

The GOP in the US and the Tories in the UK place no value on democracy. They would happily push the country into autocracy as long as they are the ones in charge. And they constantly gaslight their supporters, whom they despise only a little bit less than everyone else.

(edit - forgot this was the Donald Trump thread ...)

I used to think that militarism was one of those values in the U.S. was a pretty sacrosanct value, at least for eminent politicians to profess. They'd never have, for example, made light of the trials and tribulations of a man who'd spent around 5 years as an American POW in Vietnam. Trump did just that, and what happened? Nothing. If anything, it was just folded into his reputation as a man who shoots from the hip.

Imagine Obama saying that about McCain, and the absolute meltdown that would have followed on channels like Fox News. It would never have ended.

We need to stop asking where the line will be drawn with Trump, because there is no line. Trump doesn't need to toe a line in order to maintain Republican backing because it's the other way around. It's the Republican party who need to watch what they say lest they lose his backing. Trump can say what he likes and his base eats it up. Trump appeals to the true values of his base, which are darker and deeper set than god & country. It's really all about power. Power at any cost.

Like rats eating each other.

"Main Stream Media is trying to influence politics" f*ckers like Hannity spent the last ten year screaming.

(Accuse others of that which you are guilty)

It's worth noting that Ann fell out of love with Trump failed to live up to the promises he made in the lead up to the 2016 election. She expected/hoped him to build a massive wall on the southern border pretty much immediately and various other things and lost faith in him pretty quickly.

The rest of us were aghast at what he went on with, she was aghast that he didn't go far enough. Let's hope she never gets a President she ends up being pleased with.

Hannity is the mainstream media. They need to be called out every time they act like Fox is some lone, dissenting voice and its handful of viewers are different from the rest of the sheeple. It's the most popular news network in the US by a fair margin. Unless they're still going with their previous court argument that Hannity is entertainment and no sane person would believe anything they saw on his programme.