In a fraud-free election Trump would wipe FJB off the face of the Earth.
But it won’t be a fraud-free election.
I love the sense of inevitability but the democrats have done a good job in the last elections cycles with a weak hand.
The democrats still control all the big cities where the 2020 election was stolen. why would this not happen again?
It’s not 1980 anymore. The electorate has a big contingent of third world invaders voting these days.
Imho the most important message about 1980—which folks around here keep forgetting because they are stuck on normalcy bias—is that a lot can happen between March and November—and that can radically affect the results of the election.
Sometimes I think the posts around here are busy plotting moves on a chessboard—when in November the chessboard might have burned in a house fire and the new game may have a name that has not even been invented yet.
Reagan was not under attack by lawfare.
One of the things the GOP had working for them in ‘79 was the religious right was backing Reagan from the pulpit.
I was new to politics then and really knew nothing about “The Great One”.
Once I was informed, I talked my family into voting for him.
Dad had’t voted for decades.
Years later I bought him a USS Ronald Reagan hat.
He almost cried.
Trump could help himself by adopting the warm affability of Reagan. Suburban women would like that. A the same time he could be tough on the issues.
CA was 66% white non-hispanic. It's now down to around 40%.
Reagan was a very likeable individual.
Trump brings so much baggage to the table it puts some voters off.
It’s Trump’s to lose.
Let’s hope he doesn’t.
But bear in mind,
It’s also Biden’s to steal.
Carter only had the Iranian hostages and inflation and he wasn’t the proximate cause of the latter.
Biden has (and caused) 10 million illegals, flying illegals all over the country, not vetting illegals for criminal background or major illnesses; higher inflation than Carter; war on fossil energy; high crime; dystopian, unlivable cities; cultural rot including DEI, CRT, etc; ascendancy of marxists throughout government; trannyism; all major universities taken over by marxists; fake news / no real news reporting from MSM; government/tech collusion; jamming EVs down our throats; and lots more.
It’s a million times worse today than it was when Carter was running for re-election.
America was also a majority White Christian nation even back in the 80s. That’s no longer the case
This is not your grandfather’s (Jimmy) democrat party.
In 1980 there were still a few democrats who thought uncorrupted elections were more important than winning. I doubt you even find a rat voter who believes that now.
“It’s not 1980 anymore. The electorate is world class stupid these days.”
Exactly! Add to that, the Iran hostage crisis that revealed just how feckless Carter was. If something like that were to happen with Biden in charge, today’s media would make it sound like those hostages were just on vacation.
Dumb article. America was 90% white in 1980.
For those that were not alive, or too little to remember, this current state, while terrible, in no way matches the jimmah cahtah borderline depression of 79-80.
It took Reagan 2 years to put the country back together.
The times right now are really similar.
Back then, Reagan took 49 states.