You're assuming Trump isn't being blackmailed somehow. His behavior, antics, history (Stormy Daniels, bankruptcies) and purges all lead me to believe he is. You may not, and I'm stupid exhausted of debating people on issues they've already made their minds up on.
Trump's trade actions won't be in his favor. He's not playing 11D chess. He's not a stable genius.
His actions have already severely disturbed an economic ecosystem which was fragile in the first place. Reintroducing speculation, unleashing unfettered capitalism will result in heavy economic damage. His merciless insults to opposition may resonate in Zig Forums, but in the Churches here in Kentucky they are appalled. The Dem base is frightened… no terrified of Trump and Bolton. You may think the March for our lives was fake, but it wasn't. Dems are energized, and will be showing up in 2018 and 2020. Anyone with more braincells than a polyp realizes only DIEHARD right wingers will be making it to the midterms. My neighbors in Harlen (the reliable voting kind) refuse to admit they're even conservative right now. They are thoroughly embarrassed of Trump. Dems only need to promise Keynesian rationality, Medicaid, Social Security, Food Stamps, Free College, higher minimum wage, national healthcare and ironically to make America great again to run roughshod on Republicans. They are terrible strategists though, and may try to run on gun control which will cost them heavy.
Trump might make polyps nipples hard, but the God fearing folk in Kentucky have even stopped their pro life marches because they are demoralized. Don't expect heavy pro Trump showings.
Aiden Sullivan
That assumes Trump has some sort of problem with Mueller and needs to be blackmailed. As for the elections, what people say and what they do are very different. Nobody wanted to associate with Trump during the primaries or the general yet he won both because a silent majority turned out in his favor. They didn't respond to polls, they just voted. Even if they didn't like Trump, there's no viable alternative.
Which is the heart of the problem: Trump can do whatever he wants so long as he hits the right notes on Chinese trade. That is the issue swing voters care about, since it directly affects the amount of hours they work and their pay. And "god fearing people" are such utter worthless cucks at this point since they can't produce viable national candidates. A similar problem Democrats -including christian democrats like Gavin Newsom- have.
Democrat majorities never materialize into anything. They just punt issues away and come up with elaborate excuses as to why they're complete failures that lose to Republicans at every turn. The party knows they're due wins but they'll just use that to consolidate their power by running dull centrists that will win by default.
I think the GOP really fucked themselves though. Dems are unfortunately just a placeholder party these days (at least in my lifetime), and I sincerely question their strategists. That being said the GOP doesn't resonate like it did pre Trump. Yes a silent majority did show, but my family who voted for him won't likely vote for him again. If they do I GUARANTEE they're keeping it to themselves. Which is bad in it's own way. Plus the electorate is getting browner, and I bet the black vote shows up in hordes for 2020. So the placeholder party will comeback. I'm not terribly certain they'll do anything worthwhile though. Maybe just bring politics back into statism, but maybe they become transformed by demsuccs. I won't vote for anything right of Corbyn personally.
Cooper Long
That's flatly wrong. Trump lost the popular vote by around 3,000,000 votes.
Both Hillary and Trump were neck and neck in the unpopularity polls, making the outcome close to a 50/50 split. Trump just managed to blunder into the Republican's fix: the Electoral College
