I really doubt that as well. If the DNC doesn’t pick up too many seats in the midterms I doubt we’ll see it fully till we’re much closer to 2020. Or even after.
I don’t know how successful that would be. Thus far the Trump camp only really controls the white house, the executive can’t purge congress. They’ve made it pretty clear they plan to mount primary challenges against anyone who’s mildly cheesed them off. But I really don’t know how well that would work. Most of the people they’ve been challenging are in areas where Trump did notably worse than factions he’d be challenging during the primaries. Or under-preformed in the actual election. Tracked either by his performance vs Romeny or the actual vote with Clinton.
Remember his true hardcore base is just a subset of the republicans own base. So less than their slightly less than half the population. And while he’s getting (or was getting) raves from that base. What he’s getting from the rest of the right is more along the lines of weak willed protest/criticism. Combined with rote party line votes. And a truely shameful attempt to ignore or occasionally deny the problem.
Remember he lost the popular vote. By a lot. Winning mostly down to a quirk of voter turnout (or maybe voter suppression) and the fickleness of a very small group of people. Less than 100,000 votes in just 5 states. From a group of Americans who probably don’t number much more than a few hundred thousand people.
Even if its shocking how many will go along for partisan reasons. We’re already seeing his numbers go down by a thousand metrics. At some point, that breaking point we talked about, he’ll be damn close to only his base. I just don’t think his true base is large enough to do these things on its own.
