Posted on 11/14/2019 6:24:29 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
On March 4, 1825, the fifth president of the United States, James Monroe, a fighter in the Revolutionary War and the last president who was a founding father, departed the White House, retiring happily to Oak Hill, Virginia, and the life of a country gentleman.
Monroe had completed his second term as president. His predecessor, James Madison, had also completed two terms, as had Thomas Jefferson before him. It was probably quite conceivable to these men, their contemporaries in the political class, and the electorate, that, perhaps in their lifetime, another three occupants of the White House would succeed each other after completing two terms.
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A second term for DJT will also bring the left into the street, something I’ve long desired.
The ass kicking in 2020 the left is gonna take will make their heads explode.
Payback WILL be a bitch!
Since 1952 the sequence has been 2 Rep victories followed by 2 Dem victories with the exception of Carter-Reagan-Bush where there was 1 Dem,3 Rep victories
Article is long and doesn’t say much that we don’t know. Is it me?
James Monroe departed the White House, retiring happily to Oak Hill, Virginia, and the life of a country gentleman.I wish we could return to that long-standing tradition.
The “Progressives” believe that if they impeach DJT, he will not be re-elected. I will raise them an Alcee Hastings.(D-FL) Impeached for bribery, removed from the bench, now sits in House seat Florida 20th District since 2013.
Actually the Carter-Reagan-Bush sequence would be Demonrat - Republican - RINO......
Victory for the Donald next year will be especially sweet for two reasons:
1) after throwing an unprecedented 4 year long temper tantrum, the MSM’s rejection by the voters will cause giant wailing meltdowns
2) There is an excellent chance Trump will get to replace at least a couple of the Gang of Four on the Supreme Court (not to mention appointing a good strict constructionist to take Justice Thomas’ place after years retires) thus securing our constitutional rights for a generation. The chance to flip a few more Circuit Courts (the 9th!!!!?) will be a very nice added bonus.
Technically, sure, but the mid-20th century was also an Age of Incumbency. Roosevelt dying and Kennedy being killed made it look like it wasn’t, but between Hoover and Ford incumbents ran for re-election and voters reelected them. Maybe the difference is that now they aren’t dying on us.
How so...this president has been harnessed his entire 3 years so far and has had the entire govt and the entire press against him...and an open coup going on against him as well! No other president has ever had that...ever!!!!!!!
Quit the non ordinary - presidency I would say!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The last president who sought re-election and failed was Bush41 - and that was after the Iraq War spiked his popularity above 90 percent. That chased out the more notable Dems (especially Mario Cuomo) leaving a field of Democrat nobodies from whom we got Bill Clinton and Al Gore with their “worst economy in the last 50 years” lie.
After 12 years of Republican presidents, the liberal media came out of the closet and became open partisans leading us eventually to the “Fake News” media we have today.
What a waste of time reading this. And:
“...there has been nothing close to a proper landslide since 1988, two decades ago.”
Um, you lost a decade there, bucky.
A second term has to be more than a 7-2 SCOTUS
There MUST be another Church Commission to scrub the Deep State
We have to act boldly. We should eliminate at least 5 Cabinets and sublimate (better yet subeliminate) them into Homeland Security without adding 1 single Homeland job.
We could take back VA in one election cycle if we can summon the political will to Put these GS lifers out into the real world.
I dont want the republicans to win in 2020. I want the dems defeat to be so extreme that they pile into the streets and scratch their own eyes out
Agreed. 1980 bucked the trend. If you think about it, the trend would have normally given 1984 and 1988 to Reps anyway, so Reagan "stealing" 1 term from Carter and the Dems in 1980 is the one election bucking the trend.
I'll take it a step further. Instead of thinking of a trend of the WH swapping parties every 2 terms for half a century (again with 1980 being the exception), think of the fact that you have to go all the way back to the 1896 election to have a situation where a party was in the WH for only 1 term (again, Carter being in the WH for only 1 term is the exception). When Dem Grover Cleveland won the election in 1892 (replacing Rep Ben Harrison) then failed to win re-election in 1896 (losing to Rep McKinley), it was the most recent time before 1980 a party was in the WH for just one term. And even that was unusual because Dem Cleveland had served in the WH in a term before Harrison (Cleveland was both the 22nd and 24th president). So an argument could be made that his failure to win re-election was because he already won re-election in a way when he won in 1892.
That being said, I think Trump has a strong trend to win re-election in 2020. If 1980 is the outlier, then the Dems in 2020 want to replicate 1980. How? I just don't see Trump failing in popularity like Carter did with the malaise economy and hostages being in Iran for a year. Nor do I see the Dems coming up with a rock-star popular candidate to use against the incumbent like Reagan was in 1980.
“A second term for DJT will also bring the left into the street, something I’ve long desired.”
They make better targets that way
A second term for DJT would basically be a first term, since the left has been trying to obstruct him from doing his job from day one.
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