no chance.
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I am so glad and relieved that racist, bigoted, obnoxious, orange faced twat has gone.
Hopefully, President Biden, an honorable and decent man, who understands the pain of losing loved ones, will try to put things right, although, it will take time. First, he has to heal the nation and get the Covid pandemic under control
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I am so glad and relieved that racist, bigoted, obnoxious, orange faced twat has gone.
Why don’t you tell us how you really feel about him Maria 
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I can’t stand him. Every time he started making a speech, my blood pressure used to go up and I had to change the channel, otherwise I would damage the TV. Even my mum, she never ever swears, some of the words she was saying, I never heard of. She was hoping the lightening would strike his orange head today, when he was boasting in his final goodbye speech.
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I blubbed when President Biden took his oath of office, just now. His wife was so proud of him. She will make a wonderful and proactive First Lady. He deserves a chance to put things right and to heal America.
It is great to see the first Asian/African-American woman as Vice-President. It has been a long time coming.
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I don’t want to burst your bubble but Trump maybe gone but Trumpism persists. Just couple of weeks ago we have witnessed how deluded and reckless his cult is, and the root goes alarmingly deep. Tomorrow, we will not wake up to a golden dawn. But from tomorrow we may expect the repair work to start.
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I think Biden will work hard, make a big splash in the first 100 days, reverse some of the more egregious policies of Trump, work hard to get better on top of covid… and the backdrop of all that good work will be another impeachment trial for old Trumpy.
It is necessary, if you want to have the rule of law. But at the same time, I understand why Biden might be frustrated, as Trump’s shadow lingers over his own presidency.
I think the Dems will have two years where they have to put their foot down and work ferociously to do all that they can, while they have the Presidency, House and Senate. By that time some semblance of normal will have hopefully resumed, not that normal was without difficulty, mind you.
After two years it is anyone’s guess where we will be.
The Republicans will have their own soul searching to do. Front and center in all of that will be whether or not Trump has any future as a significant Republican. And if he doesn’t, what of the ‘movement’ he spawned. A fight for the soul of the Republican Party is underway. It has always been about low taxes, pro business, limited welfare, that sort of thing. But under Trump it is massively more vulgar and insular. Is that who they want to be?
If so, I suspect the amount of people who just voted for Trump - a significant number, though a losing number - will be the high water mark of that sort of party, as you can’t argue with the underlying demographics. Whether Trump and his ilk like it or not, America is getting younger, more racially diverse, sexually diverse, and so on and so forth, and millennials tend to be more progressive in their politics than not.
The Republicans need a broad tent reinvention of some sort, but if they continue to go down the path Trump has laid out, I don’t see much of a future for them.
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I do wonder whether republicans can work with the President for the first couple of years while using that time to cleanse their party of the more malignant figures.
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I know that, I am not that naive, it isn’t an overnight fix it job. It least it is a start, it will take years, if things go smoothly, with a few bumps on the way. It gives people hope and to be positive at least.
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Just saying, Jennifer Lopez is the same age as Jacob Rees-Smog! What a contrast
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I’m not that worried about the magnitude of the task or the time it may require.
But I’m very nervous about people like Pompeo, Kushner, Cruz or McConnell.
I would agree about Pompeo to a certain degree. With Kushner, he has no chance, he is so bland as a blamonge and very disliked in Washingt9n DC, so I am told he might push his wife to go forward, but she has her Dad’s legacy which will be at her disadvantage.
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I don’t think Biden will have any support from Republicans. Tax increases, nope. More liberal immigration, nope. Stimulus, probably not. Environmental laws, don’t think so.
To the extent Trump doesn’t wish to go away, expect a big fight on the right. If he makes good his idea to create a new party, he could immediately poach a fair number of Republicans into it, because they would fear having to run against someone from his party. If he doesn’t create a new party, few Republicans would want to be “primaried” by a Trump supported challenger. Far from purging radical Republicans, it could be the more moderate ones who continue to die out. In fact, I fully expect that.
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