"Republicans are going to wish Hillary Clinton won"

[Pericles]

Actually, losing elections is bad.

Yes but in 2020 if the Republicans lose in a landslide and Democrats gain a big majority because 2016 was a poisoned chalice and Trump is very unpopular they might think it'd have been better to lose narrowly in 2016, win big in 2018 and win in 2020.

[Pericles]

I thought this at the time, and still do now, that 2016 was a poisoned chalice and both Trump and Clinton were so unpopular they would most likely be one-term Presidents. It's too early to now for sure but it sure does seem like the Republicans would have been better off if Clinton won in the long-term.