German trust in USA plummets to record low, survey shows

Nah, this is the cycle.

Republican gets into office. Meddles with church & state, screws over the middle and lower classes, etc. Liberals get outraged and show up at the voting booth to get a Democrat into office.

Democrat is in office 4-8 years. Liberals get complacent and assume there's no chance the republican candidate will get elected. 'Who could possibly vote for such a terrible candidate?', they reason. Republican wins.

4-8 years later, liberals are outraged, turn out in big numbers and elect a Democrat.

Rinse, repeat.

TLDR: Trump won't win a second term. Liberal outrage against a Republican president is nothing new, but this current political sentiment is exceptional. Liberals will turn out in big enough numbers to get a Democrat in office. But then they'll get complacent and the presidency will inevitably go red again in 4-8 years.

The fact of the matter is, IMO, more of America identifies with the liberal ideology than republican ideology. The world at large is undeniably moving in a progressive direction overall. So this causes liberals to get complacent and assume continued progress is inevitable. Republican voters never get complacent, however, because most of them genuinely believe their financial and religious security, and even their lives, are literally at risk if liberals continue to occupy the White House. They're genuinely convinced liberals will tax America into oblivion, will deport white people while handing over their offices to immigrants, will take their guns, etc. It's lunacy. But it's deeply entrenched lunacy that ignites a fiery passion that never wanes and always motivates them to show up at the voting booth.

The world is undeniably moving in a socially progressive direction. The people moving with that tide think it will keep moving without their involvement, and so they see less need to turn out to vote. The people getting swept along with it, however, resist vociferously. The left only tends to show up in dominating fashion when they sense that the tide has been diverted.

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