[TheRealThing]

Republican incumbents have been voting with their feet. When large numbers of incumbents opt out of running for reelection, it generally is not a good sign for their party's election prospects. I see very little enthusiastic support for Trump. I will be shocked if Republican turnout in 2020 is stronger than it was in 2016.

Agree but to my instincts of those R incumbents that bolted, many were pretty whiny and weak. The US Congress is a place for real men, not the daisies and snow flakes we saw then and at present. Additionally, given our present state of acceptable cultural looseness, it's the rare man who does not have at least one skeleton that he would prefer to keep stuffed in the closet. And though Democrats may no longer be champion of the common man, they're certainly peerless where it comes to getting down in the mud.