TRUMP, BANNON AND WHY A HARD TURN TO THE RIGHT COULD END DEMOCRACY AS WE KNOW IT!

The Establishment is toast. The right has had it and is showing it in their voting. Likewise on the Democrat side where progressives, otherwise known as the base of the party, told them loud and clear last election they weren't happy either. Both sides have responded with deafening silence. This is a very bad sign as from an historical perspective, whenever this occurs, fascism rises hard and fast.

The Democrats cannot get out of their own way. Instead of making each special election about Trump, they have decided local is better, even though their opponents are NOT following that script and winning as a result. Every election from now on should tie the candidate to Trump, Nazis and the inevitable rise of fascism. They won't and that's why barring Trump going down in a heap next year (a very likely possibility if Mueller finds proof of illegality), the Democrats are going to lose even more ground due to their idiocy.

The Democrats are in a tough spot. Because of gerrymandering, they can't win the House back unless a landslide occurs in 2018. Even worse, they have to defend ten vulnerable seats while the Republicans only have two, for both of which the GOP has a zero percent chance of winning either in the primaries or the general election. Jeff Flake is toast in Arizona where his approval rating is near single digits and hated in Trump counties. He is behind 26 points from his opponent in the primary. Likewise, Dean Heller in Nevada that regardless of whether he gets primaried or not, this seat is near 100% likely to go blue in 2018.

Now 2018 is, in election terms, decades away, especially as our current president makes each week feel like a century. A LOT can happen in that time. Trump could be impeached which would devastate the next election for Republicans who may turn on a party accused of being traitorous to this country. Gerrymandering could be overturned by the Supreme Court, another distinct possibility. But let's say neither of things happen. If that is the case, Democrats, and the United States could be fucked.

If Republicans retain control of the House, gain five seats in the Senate and possibly even nominate at least one Supreme Court Justice, the fallout from this will be nation ending. They WILL kill off health care at this point as it is likley they will have the votes to pass it under budget reconciliation. They will also have the votes for a tax plan that will bankrupt this nation just like Kansas. Gay people will be treated even worse than now and black people will be thrown in jail in massive numbers. Unemployment will skyrocket, riots will occur, martial law and eventually the end of democracy itself. If we don't stop the Republican party in 2018, there won't be anything left to fight for. Economic ruin, fascism run wild and most likely, WW3, will kill most of us off anyway.

There is only one way to stop this and that is to NOT vote for just about ANY Republican. If you haven't voted before, register and vote in 2018 because the lives of you and everyone you know depend on it. Unless people show up in droves to turn the House and Senate blue, this country dies. Period. Democrats suck but they still are better than the utterly insane right hell bent on destruction. If you can't see that, you are part of the problem.