re: These protests... It's going to destroy the Democratic Party

Athletix, I wish I shared your positive outlook. I really do, but Republicans have shown no gumption since Gingrich. Ryan, McConnell are weak leaders. I don't want to be liked. I want to be right.

Unfortunately, we're in the last years of a Republican south. Blacks are increasing in Georgia & in the 2020 census, we will probably rise to at least 18 electoral votes by then. NC is doing the same, we only have a 5% advantage now. From where are these people coming? New York, Michigan, Ohio, New Jersey, Philadelphia. The Democrat demographics are geographically shifting south. Florida's about gone too.

Trump can't fix this. He's right, about how the establishment has sold us down the river. But it's the establishment with whom he has to work. And regrettably few of the Republicans supported him.

This is partly why they lost. And they don't even realize it.

I both agree & disagree w/ you Scoob, & here's why.

It's not bringing the Democrat Party down, but it's going to move it further to the left because that's what the younger voters have been conditioned to want.

Electing Trump may delay, but isn't going to spare anything. We have too much debt, too many unfunded liabilities, too many service sector jobs, too many regulations. Those jobs in the Rust Belt are gone. If they come back, it'll be another decade because of negotiation, construction, then production.

The Democrats are smart, but their voters are sheep. Blacks haven't realized that Democrats don't enact practices that help them. Hispanics are following suit. They'll keep the northeast, but their Electoral College advantage is shifting to the south because of the blacks from the north moving here. They'll also keep the west coast.

This is how we're going to vote in a total Socialist. Because they're going to do so with the increased handouts that are going to enrich certain donors. This is the fascist (not Nazi-type) aspect of it, when govt controls corporations. It's already rolling & partly why the Clintons need to be in a court room for their Foundation antics.

It's not just the Democratic Party, it's the party system in general. Honestly Trump was a nuclear bomb on the party system. The Democratic party is utterly destroyed with no leadership, and Trump has a knife to the throat of the Republican party. We're fricked.

It will either destroy it or it will continue to get worse. The liberal media will eventually stop with all this nonsense because most Americans do not want to watch this shite day in and day out and their ratings will drop. It drives me freaking insane to see these idiots pretend to care about something. That being said, the democrats are smart and know the electoral map is changing. Young people who have been raised to believe every word of the media as well as growing minority populations will make it easier for them to win traditionally red states. It is imperative that Trump and the Republicans that have not sold out make a strong effort to reach out to the new generation of voters and minorities in order to unite not only the vote but the country.

As long as we keep enabling the behavior, they'll keep doing it.