First off Your Father's America is languishing in many different ways.
As left leaning poster - though probably not that respectable I'd be perfectly fine seeing Trump complete his four year term except (will get to). With Trump in the White House I'd think that this opportunity to reshape the direction of the nation that the right saw on election day will be minimized. You see that just about everyday with the comments from GOP leadership in the House and the Senate. There may be some form of tax cuts but it seems like the ship has sailed on tax reform. There will likely be some changes to the ACA but full blown repeal seems highly unlikely today. The rest of the laundry list of policy goals all seem thwarted. I don't mean they won't happen at all, but that the range and scope of changes are all scaled back with the distraction of the circus that is the administration.
If we need to suffer with full GOP control of the nation then Trump at the helm is about as best we can hope for when it comes to policy. The government the institutions and bureaucracies the we love to hate would get us through these four years despite the best efforts of the political appointments to tear them down. Obama left the nation in such "a mess" that we can cruise control the normal day to day. While not ideal, it is far better than allowing the "wing nuts" actually implement too much change.
I could see how moderate, but right leaning guys might largely agree with this. They would disagree with the characterization of these changes as being in the wrong direction, but I don't think they fall in the "blow it all up" camp either. That their OK with using Trump. and the Freedom Caucus and such to achieve their policy goals, but would never go so far as wanting Trump or the Freedom Caucus actually running things unconstrained. They'd be fine with modest achievements that I wouldn't like over the next four years. I at least would hope that this would be true.
Just one problem with all of this. This is dependent that all of our adversaries around the globe along with Mother Nature wait these four years out. That there is no crisis that would require a fully functional government response. No coordinated terrorist attacks, no international crisis, no Wall Street shenanigans, no major natural disasters. On 9-11 as we sat around the TV with the jerry-rigged antenna there was this woman which for the couple of hours repeated "Where is my president? Where is my president?" until Bush spoke early that afternoon.
It is highly unlikely that we go through these four years without their being a time when we need "our president". I certainly criticize Bush's handling of 9-11, of Katrina, of the economic meltdown but I wasn't wondering how Jared would fit these responses into his schedule. I have to hope and pray that when the inevitable real crisis happens - whatever it might be that Trump and company will rise to the occasion (absent the tyrannical power grab) . Hope and prayer is all we got though, as there nothing to give me the "warm and fuzzies" that Trump and "all the best" men he has surrounded himself with have it in them.
Take away the threat that there would be such a crisis and four years of Trump is just an embarrassment we need to endure. Not too much bad will be accomplished. Just a necessary evil. And since I fear that all of the impeachment/resigning talk is wishful thinking at this point - especially with this Congress it is likely the future we have. Such a wonderful time and place we live in.
