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I take the opposite view. The neglect of both parties has produced unstable social undercurrents and exacerbated racial animism. Trump may be a place holder but nothing he said was not being heard in the congress from well known and vocal personages ie Congressman King with his claims that Mexicans have calves like cantaloupes from hiking across the border with drugs. The conservative right also created the framework in which wall street swiped 3 trillion dollars from poor people over the past decade. No one got jailed for it and the main culprit banks are bigger than ever. The income inequality divide is completely on the backs of Republicans. Trump would magnify the means where these crooks can consolidate wealth. The flyover poor are being duped.

Hilary will win and the electoral spread will be massive. She will break 300 easily. She will be a great president. She has a better position since she will also get back the senate. The Congress will be greatly weakened with a pick up about 20 or so congressmen and that is massive given the heavily gerrymandered districts that give us that wide swath of red in the middle on electoral maps. I is also the failure of this congress that created that underbelly of discontent in these red areas where steel is dead, coal is dead and manufacturing took flight.

The GOP cannot win in the near future. They so not have the demographic strength if they refuse to be inclusive and speak of when america was great as if the backwardness of racism and anti civil rights were bastions of Americana in a most magnificent bloom. They have to be competitive among blacks and Hispanics or they are in the cold for another two to four election cycles.

Mrs C has a good plan. It is not trickle down which has failed. It is stepped tax increase so the rich pay their fair share, regulations to prohibit hedge funds selling derivatives that are crap, rebuilding infrastructure, two year college guarantees, student loans reprieve via national service and lessening the usurious interest rates. I also trust her to be stronger than Obama in foreign policy and know she will be a hands on president since that is what she was designed for by the gods.

 

 

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