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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsShould we be talking about 2020?
Does anyone think we can make it to 2020 under Trump and the right-wing coup?
Is it naive to be talking about 2020?
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Should we be talking about 2020? (Original Post)
kentuck
Dec 2016
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2018 for Congress and 2020 for Prez. What's past is past, and we will make it to 2020.
Hoyt
Dec 2016
#2
no reason other than weakness or cowardice would prevent making it through this shitstorm
LanternWaste
Dec 2016
#6
treestar
(82,383 posts)1. Yes, 2018
we need to pay more attention to midterms and lower offices.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)2. 2018 for Congress and 2020 for Prez. What's past is past, and we will make it to 2020.
Might be tough, but we will make it. We've survived Reagan, Nixon, bushes, and we will survive Trump.
kentuck
(110,950 posts)3. Are you sure about that?
get the red out
(13,459 posts)4. Absolutely!
We can't give up!
Mike Nelson
(9,903 posts)5. We should be...
...thinking about 2018.
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)6. no reason other than weakness or cowardice would prevent making it through this shitstorm
I see nothing preventing forward motion between now and 2020. Nixon, Reagan, the Bushes... we made it through that shitstorm, no reasons other than weakness or cowardice (put the two together and you get "defeatism" would prevent us collectively making it through this one.