I can’t take Trump at his word there. The other party will win at some point as the pendulum always swings, and right now the left knows no moderation. No liberalism. They cry for socialism as if they don’t know how painful it would be, how destructive. We may get a taste of it and dear Gd let us recover.
It feels like we are being setup for it.
Financial Analyst Martin Armstrong has charted the ups and downs of the democrat party. The most seats they ever had in Congress was during FDR's administration. Then the pendulum swings to the republicans. When it swings back to the democrats, they do get the majority again, but never at the level they did previously. In contrast, in 2016 was the high point for the republicans, the most seats they have had since the 1920s or so. Today, the democrats have one half of one third of the federal government. Martin is predicting that if the current trend holds, by the 2030s, the democrat party will not exist anymore, it will break up. Considering how there are factions in the party already fighting each other, that seems possible to me.
The "Left" is in its own fight against the "Radical Left" for the soul of the Democratic Party.
Bernie, AOC, the new muslim Congresswomen are the face of this faction.
That said, I think you are correct about trusting (or not) Trump in his statement that "America will never be a socialist country."
His statement is not a "statement of fact" so much as it is a "war cry."
I don't know who was controlling the cameras when he made that statement during the SOTU (the networks I imagine), but they knew to cut immediately to Bernie and AOC for their facial expressions.
As an aside, I wonder what the hell Sen Ed Markey was thinking when he joined with AOC to introduce the "Green New Deal" resolution the other day. I'm not even sure what it means when a Senator joins with a Congressman to introduce a House Resolution. I am thinking that it is mostly a sign of moral support.
Here's an interesting snippet from Vox:
The resolution already has around 60 House co-sponsors and nine Senate co-sponsors, per the Washington Post’s Jeff Stein, but another goal of Ocasio-Cortez and climate organizers is to get support from 2020 Democrats.I think a Congressional Resolution as it is used here is a declaration of intent to produce a bill and gives supporters a public means of expressing their willingness to fight for such a bill.
As I have said elsewhere, it is surprising that Markey would participate in this endeavor given the radical nature of the Resolution.