Vince wrote:I used to call them both "big government, crony capitalist progressives", but I've come to decide that Trump isn't forward thinking nor disciplined enough to be an actual progressive. So I'll leave him at simply a big government liberal. I think Hillary would probably be more damaging to the country for 4 years as opposed to 4 years of Trump, but not by much. I've been trying to look past this election. Four years from now we'd get another run at an awful President Hillary. After 4 years of Trump, the Democrats get another run at him. Bottom line for a Trump Presidency is that best case we're going to get 12 years of growing government and I think that kills us regardless. Either he's such a good big government President that he ends up with a lot of Democrat crossover in '20, or he's so awful and the Republican brand so damaged that we end up with 8 years of a big government Democrat.
So who is worse for 4 years? Hillary. Who's worse for the extended future? I think Trump.
Can't discount Hillary handing out favors and organizing the party to line up with her faction, though. President Clinton II sets us up nicely for Candidate Wasserman-Schultz in 2024, which is another 4+ years of lobby-friendly cronyism.
On the other hand, if she loses to Trump, she'll hopefully become an unelectable joke, and if Trump bombs after four years, we could have a real election again as early as 2020. As real as it gets in this system, at least.