ms spock said:

diddly-squat said:

captain_spalding said:

I suggest that my ‘shits and giggles’ hypothesis about American voting also comes in here, in some small way.

2016, and there’s enough people who fall for Trump’s showy, blustering style, and for his overblown rhetoric and scapegoating, and they think, hey, yeah, let’s put this guy in the Presidency and see if he can do better than professional politicians. Especially as the Republicans controlled both houses at the time.

Turns out, he’s a bozo, and the Republicans as shit useless.

So, 2020/2021, and both Trump and the Republicans get the heave-ho.

Joe Biden and the Democrats are nice, but so ho-hum. And, the media is saying Joe is old and icky, and giving lots of space to Republican shit about immigrants, and DEI, and Transgender yadda-yadda. And Trump is howling his head off, non-stop.

Also, Americans are not yet grown-up enough to contemplate a woman President, let alone a black woman President.

So, 2024, and people think, wow, Trump is totally pissed off now, if he gets back in, he’s really going to kick arse, we’ll see some .big-time action from Washington. Let’s vote him in, get a few laffs there, right?

The Republicans are still squawking about DEI, immigration, transgender all being the fault of the Dems. Plus they hung around with Icky Old Joe. Let’s have those sensible Republican folks back.

And, they vote for Trump and the GOP, just to see what’ll happen.

What happens is that they’re all still self-serving bozos.

At last, in 2026, the penny dropped.

Your summary is spot on but I’m not sure the “penny has dropped” is quite the right way to think about it.. it still feels a lot like a wildly swinging pendulum.

I am concerned that if the Corporate Democrats fail to act now, then 2028 will potentially see the pendulum swing towards the first Republican Nazi President in America.

I think both sides will probably look to calm the farm somewhat, and whomever wins the 2028 Republican primary will do so under the guise of a significantly more moderate platform