The “Bull Moose Democrats” Will Allow For Trump’s 2020 Re-Election

As always, history provides frightening answers…

Because it is very possible that nobody running for President of the United States in 2020 is remotely close to as effective as Theodore Roosevelt or Woodrow Wilson were as politicians, America — a country likely to contest an election with three or four electable and popularly supported candidates — is in real trouble. Woodrow Wilson won a four-candidate race in 1912 with 41.8% of 16% of America’s total population hitting the polls. The idea that Donald Trump could do comparably the same numbers, percentage-wise, in 2020 and win in a country three and one-half times larger, population-wise? That’s truly concerning. Examining how we got here and what happens next is truly important.

Recent Gallup poll data notes that 39% of Americans polled see themselves as independents, while 34% view themselves as Democrats and 25% as Republicans. Thus, this can be extrapolated to mean that, for the first time in 108 years, it’s entirely likely that third-party candidate for President that will out-poll the party-nominated incumbent — one from the Democratic side of the two-party system — will emerge. Therefore, it’s probably wise to examine Teddy Roosevelt’s run with the “Bull Moose party” and gain a sense of the conditions that predate…