Irish oddsmaker gives 33% chance Trump will be impeached

[robkelk]

And now I'm going to be depressing...


"[A] combination of a dynamic evangelist, enough money, and modern techniques of advertising and propaganda might make Billy Sunday’s effort look like a corner store compared to Sears Roebuck. Throw in a depression for good measure, promise a material heaven here on earth and a dash of anti-Semitism, anti-Catholicism, anti-Negroism and large dose of anti-‘furriners’ in general and anti-intellectuals here at home and the result could be something quite frightening—particularly when one recalls that our voting system is such that a minority distributed as pluralities in enough states can constitute a working majority in Washington."
- Robert A. Heinlein, discussing his character Nehemiah Scudder (who in-universe turned the USA into a dictatorship)


"The United States is discovering, very quickly, that a charismatic single-issue candidate whose single issue is bigotry and intolerance can attract significant support, and possibly even seize control of a major party ... no mainstream candidate in recent history has used discrimination and racial fear not as a means to power but as an end in itself, as a chief policy goal."
- Doug Saunders, in The Globe and Mail, December 11, 2015


Both quotes pulled out of this pre-2016-election article. Note how much of that article has already come to pass.