Who cares?

Most Dems never vote.

dude

Even if they are registered.

Democrats have had a 75%+ turnout since 2017

Republicans have had a 55%+ turnout

In special elections.

During midterm elections, the opposition **always** sees higher turnout

Democrats are energized

Republicans are complacent

it's the reverse of 2010 and 2014

With Obama out of the White House,

Republicans have no reason to go out and vote

Voters vote "no"

they don't vote "yes"

Yup.

Thank you for agreeing!

Which is why we need to rile up the base.

The elections in the current state of politics are fucked

@FLanon the rules of political gravity still apply

even if Trump pulled a rabbit out of the hat in 2016

With good candidates and "THEY'RE TAKING OUR GUNS"

@Pielover19 @FLanon I wrote an op-ed explaining why that might not work

Trump has to something big or he's done, the consequence of his actions have to be rectified or he's done, no matter what happens on our end.

It doesn't help when Trump,

the de-facto head of the Republican Party,

is talking about BANNING GUN STOCKS

*Bump

AND RAISING THE MINIMUM AGE TO BUY A GUN TO 21

That was straight up retardation, I'm with you 100%.

How does that help make gunowners go out and vote Republican?

HOW

Preaching to the choir.

THEY WILL VOTE FOR DEMOCRATS LIKE CONOR LAMB

He's going to try to bundle that with arming teachers and other such measures.

WHAT

Doesn't matter too much

THAT'S STUPID

Then, it will fail.

HIS BASE WILL CRUCIFY HIM FOR THAT KIND OF COMPROMISE

He has to stand on what his base voted for him on

By no circumstances can he bend.

That was nothing but straight idiocy

I can believe that Trump has no real intention to enact gun control,

but it's stupid, stupid strategy

He will say he tried to pass the legislation and get brownie points from moderates while not pissing off his base too much.

winning over 1 point of the moderates is meaningless when you lose 5 points of your own base

He wont lose them.

In 2020, atleast.

They will realize that Trump is much better than someone like Biden and still vote R.

Just less enthusiastically.

at some point the "bipartisan" rhetoric begins to hurt him.

^

This is not the way to go

You need to also understand,

Moderates will NEVER cozy up to Trump

Even if there is no intention, the people who vote Trump aren't voting for compromise.

not in the numbers that could carry him to victory

Trump needs to maximize his support among conservatives

The only way I can see moderates easing up on Trump is a major NK win.

The only way.

Trump needs to enthuse his base

Trump is a smart guy.

if 100% of the people who voted for him voted in 2018,

he'd in a landslide

He's not omnipotent though.

but that won't happen if he continues to alienate his own base

I would wait and see.

If you want to do bipartisan messages right, look at SOTU.

Where this whole budget thing concludes in.

I spoke to at least a dozen people from states across the country,

That tweet is the wrong way to do it.

Trump supporters since 2011,

they said they're not voting Republicans in November

and they won't be voting for Trump in 2020

Like I said.

Let's see where the millitary wall thing goes.

If that works out, boom.

Base is back.

If not, then Trump really screwed up.

Trump can still win back the base.

He just needs to play his cards right and do something like building the wall with the military.

Yeah

And also,

As this fades from memory,

I won't excuse the tweet, but ultimately I know it'll be forgotten

The reactions will be less extreme.

Some of those guys will come back as new things push out the budget.

We've all cooled down since Friday.

And I think more will follow.

In any case, what Trump needs to do to bring back my trust is get a real 2000 mile wall 100% funded, or arrest Hillary Clinton.

I haven't

I'm still enraged as all hell

My opinion to him is still soured, but I'm going to have some more nuance about it

Breitbart rn

You've cooled down a bit.

Who's this in reference to?

Trump's tweets this morning

No, not the image

Button.