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How so? I'm not excited about a Trump presidency. My hopes are that 1) the media will keep a better eye on Trump (going off the last 8 years, they'll ignore an
by 75j 10y ago
How so? I'm not excited about a Trump presidency.
My hopes are that 1) the media will keep a better eye on Trump (going off the last 8 years, they'll ignore any atrocity as long as it's committed by the blue team), 2) that Trump is not as smart as Clinton, and therefore less able to deceptively achieve his goals and 3) that 4 years of Trump will mobilize Americans to fix their electoral system and seek out real alternatives to the Democrat / Republican duopoly.
- Alex3917 10y agoYou realize that Republicans now control the presidency, the house, the senate, and the supreme court, right? This isn't our Brexit moment, it's our Islamic Republic moment.
- matwood 10y agoCalling Trump a Republican is probably a bit strong. He ran on that ticket, but historically his views are quite liberal.
- dragonwriter 10y agoHistorically, his views have been whatever was convenient for networking with politicians useful to his business interests.
- wbl 10y agoNope. I don't think John McCain or Mitt Romney would ever want a dictatorship. Heck, I think 90% of Americans would take up arms if a president didn't give up power peacefully and the military didn't peacefully stop listening and push him out the door.
- Alex3917 10y agoI meant in terms of this election being a reaction against the moral decadence of the establishment rather than being about economic independence. I didn't mean that the US was going to become a dictatorship. (And in fact Iran itself still has elections.)
- 75j 10y agoAnd you realize that Clinton is actually a Republican too? I'm not calling it our Brexit moment, nor am I remotely excited about the next 4 years. I don't know what kind of moment it is, but let's not pretend that Clinton was a safe alternative. She is as dangerous as Trump, if not more so. I personally would have liked to see Jill Stein hit 5%, but that looks unlikely.
- ant6n 10y agoClinton may have been a centrist and not helped the Poor. Trump won't help the poor, so it's at best a toss-up. The problem is that there are a lot of people who are not white, male, Christian, heterosexual, natural-born. And it's gonna get difficult for all those people. Clinton would've left them alone, Trump is fanning the flames of xenophobia.
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- akiselev 10y agoOh please, stop the rhetoric. There will still be an election in 2018 and even in 2020. More importantly there will still be redistricting after the 2020 census and using a Trump backlash the Democrats might actually be able to redistrict in their favor along demographic lines, shutting out the Republicans from majority control of national and state houses for ever.