Some have said that 2020 could end up being like 1972.
I’ve heard that Nixon was not extremely popular during his first term. And that they expected he would face a tough re-election campaign in 1972. But the McGovern Democrats took over the Democratic party of the, “scared off” many who might otherwise have voted Democrat, and Nixon won a landslide
Trump is not going to win a landslide, as too many states such as California and the northeast liberal states will automatically vote Democrat in 2020, no matter how far out the Democrats get. But there are echoes of 1972 being seen here, as these Democrats today are going openly socialist.
One of them — California's Eric Swalwell — has signaled a willingness to use nuclear weapons against Americans who refuse to give up their guns to a Democrat-passed reversal of the Second Amendment.
“...as these Democrats today are going openly socialist.”
The dim party has been openly socialist for decades, the difference is that now some are beginning to CALL themselves socialists. That makes it much harder for people to pretend that they are not voting for socialism when they vote for such candidates. In the past I have known people who made absurd statements such as, “Now, I am no socialist, I am as conservative as anybody you will ever meet but I think the federal government should furnish free health care to everybody.” Some who like to call themselves conservative are like someone whose waist measurement is equal to his height but still refuses to admit to being fat. I live in South Carolina which some have called the most conservative state in the country in recent years but I can tell you that there are huge numbers of closet socialists in this state who will support big government but swear on a bible to be conservatives.