Just to clarify ... the reelected part of the sentence is not my opinion.
Barring a surprise, I am certain Trump will be impeached but I doubt he will be found guilty in the senate. McConnell is crafty and fights dirty, and the GOP is above all a partisan group that has no interest in truth or justice. The number required for a guilty verdict is probably beyond the bounds of reality. And decades of Fox News put paid to Reagan Republicanism, which I believe was generally-speaking (and with a particular Northern exception) honourable.
As for reelection, I guess Putin could help again. But Trump is the least popular president of any in the polling era, and is the most passionately loathed. I doubt anyone will believe anything his Justice Department produces about his opponent: we expect that from Barr. And Trump won with a minority. But has lost the suburbs, and particularly suburban women. So I doubt he will win again.
For myself, I think your confidence is the illusion of rural America. For most other people, (at least those who think like me!), they can get behind his opposition to ecotoilets, and support increased defence expenditure in other NATO countries, and that's about it. Not a very big tent. Certainly not enough to swing support behind him, when considering the truth that he cheated in the previous election and he has tried to cheat in this one.
For myself, I couldn't imagine thinking that I would support a leader of any party who has a rap sheet like Trump's. He has a mafia resume. I would have thought you had more self-respect than to support an obvious crook and serial conman.
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