Was Hillary's loss the best thing to ever happen to the Democrats?

[MR DARK BRANDON]

What about Losing in 1928?

[Mr. Smith]

And the biggest House swing since Watergate and gubernatorial gains greater than even 2006 definitely suggest that answer is yes.

[pbrower2a]

1. It kept the Republicans from getting a 58-42 split in the Senate.
2, It has allowed Democrats to get a House majority.
3. It allowed Democrats to win some critical gubernatorial elections.
5. It may have prevented a successful Hard Right 2020 landslide win for Republicans (let us say Walker-Toomey)
5. Republicans would have resisted any Clinton nominee for the Supreme Court before 2021, after which they would quickly come up with an 8-1 Republican majority in the Supreme Court that might decide that wealth has rights and people do not.
6. I can imagine a right-wing America in which the Walker Administration promises a Bill of Rights for Capital that includes abolition of unions, the minimum wage and hours laws, elimination of controls on pollution, and effective means of stifling criticism of powerful people. Employers might get control over employees' votes. That is a Corporate State as designed in Mussolini's Italy.
7. We would have huge, expensive border walls intended to keep Americans in -- with a border as deadly as the Berlin Wall with guards ordered to shoot to kill anyone trying to cross into Canada or Mexico.


Donald Trump is the most incompetent President since Johnson -- Andrew Johnson, that is. He is far more corrupt than Harding. He is more unethical than Nixon.    If you think him bad, then consider someone similarly cruel, unscrupulous, ruthless, and corrupt... but competent!