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In reply to the discussion: The Reality of Living In A Regime Is the Question: Now What? [View all]Proud Liberal Dem
(24,412 posts)And I'm realistic enough to understand what we're up against. I guess that I just can't let myself focus too much on all the bad stuff. As far as what I said about Trump's popularity, I live in a red state (Indiana) that I know will easily go for Trump in November but I also know a lot of Republicans like my Mom whom loathe Trump and there are a growing number of NeverTrumpers looking to ally themselves with us to get rid of Trump, so not all Republicans are willing participants in the Trump Republicans efforts to install him as Dictator-for-Life. Plus, a lot of conditions that negatively affected us in 2016 are not going to be in play this year, especially the lack of Third or Fourth Party candidacies to help split the vote and Trump has an underbelly of soft support that are wiser to him now than they were in 2016 that we can pick off. The Democratic Primary is messy, of course, but the primary will eventually be over and we will hopefully all rally around him/her to fight Trump. I don't see us not being energized in November. We just have to be smarter electorally and not focus so much on the national polls and more targeted towards the EC. I don't want to make it sound easy but I'm trying to hold on to what positive thinking I can.