[itsahoot]

I'm still holding out hope, and I've got a big bottle of ketchup for the huge dish of crow I may be eating, but my intuition is beginning to sound off a lot of warning bells.

As am I. I just heard Rush say if he doesn't get a handle on immigration there will be no 2020. He is as frustrated as we are.

[semantic]

I'm actually pretty sanguine about the whole matter. What choice did we really have? Anyone else other than Trump (either Jeb! or Hilldog), and it would already be all over.

So, in many ways, if Trump ends up merely being a blowhard buffoon, he did buy us 2-4 years. In that regard, I view it like the 300 Spartans @ Thermopylae; without that engagement, Salamis may have been lost. (And thus Hellenic Greece and perhaps the trajectory of Western Civ.)

Trump could end this conflict with a divisive blow. Failing that, we're in for a (very) long internecine hot/cold civil war once the uni-party takes back the reins.