Obama may as well pack it in.
Trump stoke the narrative, he stole the bully pulpit, and he is crushing his party with the truth.
When the media and courts start turning on you, they do it to save themselves in hopes of living to fight another day.
Here is something that keeps me awake at night.
Under the 20th Amendment, the new Congress takes office on January 3 but the new President does not take office until January 20. That means that if the Democrats retake the Senate (which is looking more and more likely), then regardless of who the next President is, Senate Majority Leader Chuckie Schumer will have almost three weeks to push through confirmation of all of Obama’s pending nominations, from the Supreme Court to the district courts and all of the federal agencies, and there will not be a damned thing that the Republican minority can do to stop it.
When Harry Reid unilaterally eliminated all filibusters except for Supreme Court nominations, the only reason he did not eliminate Supreme Court filibusters as well is because there were no open Supreme Court seats at the time. If Obama’s nomination for Scalia’s seat is still pending, the first thing that Chuckie Schumer will do is unilaterally eliminate the filibuster for Supreme Court nominations.
Be afraid. Be very afraid.