Will Trump forever be a stain in American history?

[Daelak]

He is an authoritarian populist and history will condemn him for it, and many people who supported him will pretend they didn't. So yes, he will be a stain in American history.

But he will also be more than that.

There is a debate among experts as to whether America is still in the Fifth Party System that began with the New Deal in 1932, or if America is in the Sixth Party System, and if so, when the Sixth Party System began. Historians will, I believe, ultimately come to the conclusion that the Sixth Party System began when Jimmy Carter was elected President. They will also conclude that this era ended when Donald Trump, and Republicans, suffered a landslide defeat in 2020. The post-war economic consensus ended when Gerald Ford lost in 1976, that too marks the end of the Fifth Party System. The Sixth Party system began when the neoliberal economic consensus took it's place, which although primarily associated and attributed to Ronald Reagan, and rightly so, actually began with Jimmy Carter. The neoliberal economic consensus moved both parties to the right on economic issues (while the ascent of Ronald Reagan moved the Republican Party to the right also on social issues). Donald Trump is the last violent spasm and doubling-down of this misguided idea of trickle-down economics, and when he is soundly defeated in 2020 so will the neoliberal economic consensus come to an end that will have defined the Sixth Party System.

Not only will he mark the end of the Sixth Party System of the United States, he will also be the final destination of the realignment of the American political parties that began with the Civil Rights Act, Barry Goldwater and Nixon's Southern Strategy where the parties largely switched places as conservatives in the South gradually began to change their allegiance from the Democratic Party to the Republican Party. The symbolic representation of this will be Barack Obama's affinity for Abraham Lincoln, the founder of the Republican Party, and Donald Trump's apparent affinity for Andrew Jackson, the founder of the Democratic Party, and the affinity for Theodore Roosevelt, Republican President but also founder of the Progressive Party, which the Democratic President-elect of 2020 will proclaim. The next President will replace the portrait of Andrew Jackson that Donald Trump put up on his Oval Office wall with that of Theodore Roosevelt, as environmentalism and combating climate change and championing green technology and jobs will be a defining attribute of the Democratic President-elect of 2020. Thus will begin the Seventh Party System, which will be dominated by Democrats for decades until they get complacent and Republicans get their shit together and find their way back from Paleoconservatism to the traditional Republican ideology of Conservative liberalism. Then, for a time, America, a Republic based on the principles of Classical liberalism that all of the Liberal Democracies we know as the Free World rests upon, will return to a state where it is unique among the Nations of this Earth in that it has two major parties that both traces their ideological lineage to the principles of Classical liberalism through Modern/Progressive/Social liberalism and Conservative liberalism respectively.

Wow that is an awesome take. Thanks.

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Not true at all, stop getting your tax law information from John Oliver.

Is the CBO a liberal Obama Killary Holdover Agent too?

[Zarc]

Wow that is an awesome take. Thanks.

You're welcome.

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he will always be remembered as the orange shitstain in the history books.

No he will be a parentes in the history books, he have not done somthing extraordinary so he join the ranks of Gerald Ford, if he get precipitated he join the rank of Richard Nixon.