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By all indications, it's just a matter of when, not if, Trump burns out. His inflammatory comments have preemptively offended and alienated a significant portion of the voter base (blacks, hispanics, women, etc.). It's very hard to win a general election, when you've directly offended 14%, 17%, and 51% of the citizenry, respectively. Most elections are won by swing voters, and he's already assuring votes for his potential opposition. As his offensive parade continues, he just generates more fodder for the Democratic party to use to curry favor with Americans, and Americans (by and large) are consumers of middle intelligence. None of this even accounts for the fact that the Democratic voter base is perennially growing and the Republican voter base is dying off, so the voters will be ever-shifting towards the Democratic party, up until election day.

The primary problem for the Republican party is its inability to evolve and tendency to retard social progress, often touting fiscal concerns for thinly-veiled bigotry (whether it be against women, hispanics, blacks, gays, etc.). The secondary problem (only because so many Americans are ignorant) is the never-ending promotion of trickle-down Reagonomics, which failed under Reagan, has left behind a legacy from which the nation has yet to recover, and has failed in all of its multifarious iterations. Someone referred to the wealthfare state as an omen that somehow is foretelling of the rise of "communism and socialism." This is far from the case, because welfare programs barely dent the federal budget or your wallet; most of your tax dollars go to corporate subsidies (and then they don't even pay taxes themselves). American has already transitioned into an oligarchy and an aristocracy is right around the corner, because people refuse to do their homework and see what they actually pay, who they pay it to, what those payees pay, and what those payees for (or usually don't).