Quote Originally Posted by surviva316 View Post
I might take you up on this at 1.5:1 odds.

Of course, I don't think Trump has a good chance to be reelected because he's going to be awesome like wuf thinks, I just think we're kidding ourselves when we just assume that he's already lost his reelection. Have we already forgotten the lessons we should have learned from the election that took place just a week ago?
Here's my prediction: Trump is going to be very presidential, moderated, and normal for 3 years as president. He will have eliminated all doubt that he has bad temperament or is unfit. The "values conservatives" evangelical NeverTrumpers will get on his side and the "barely conservative" Republicans will too. If he had these folks he would have won Minnesota, New Hampshire, and probably Virginia. He'll probably get more women and Hispanics too, since it will become clear that non-violent illegals are not being targeted.

And when the election cycle comes around, he's gonna return to the gutter. Yet this time it won't provoke people into thinking he's unhinged. They'll just say "that's how Trump campaigns; it even seems to work." If this comes to pass, the Democrat opponent will have a much harder time than Clinton did. He would still be beatable by Warren or Booker, but to be honest, I don't think they would run. Trump punishes and demoralizes his opposition. They probably won't want to be subject to that and will wait til 2024. Trump, Christie, and Bush all had the grounds to run in 2012 but waited for 2016 for similar reasons.