Before This Is Over, Republicans Are Going to Wish Hillary Clinton Won

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Before This Is Over, Republicans Are Going to Wish Hillary Clinton Won

By Jonathan Chait

April 5, 2017
8:24 a.m.

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Michael Anton’s now-iconic essay, “The Flight 93 Election,” made the case for Trump as a desperation gamble. (Hence the metaphor to a hijacked airline flight whose passengers had to choose a desperate and probably doomed fight over certain death.) Anton, now a staffer in Trump’s administration, saw another four years of Democratic presidencies as the end of white America and conservative America. Most Republicans — even those, like Anton, deeply suspicious of Trump — ultimately agreed. Almost the entire GOP decided its hatred or fear of Clinton overrode their misgivings about their own nominee, and, with varying levels of enthusiasm, supported Trump. They brought disaster upon their country, but as a small measure of compensatory justice, they have also brought it upon their party. By the time Trump has departed the Oval Office, they will look longingly at a staid, boxed-in Clinton presidency as a road not taken.

[caroldansen]

1. I think theyre starting to wish that now. Ive already heard many say that.

[Warpy]

2. I think many if not most of them already do

They know they'd have kept Congress, probably all during her tenure. Her ability to do anything beyond the completely routine would have been blocked. There would have been no chance for a turnover in Congress in 2018 or any other foreseeable year.

They shot themselves in the foot so many times by allowing Asshole to run, to be nominated, and the EC to elect him against the will of the people that they, too, will view this as the worst disaster ever to befall the country.

They were all set to lose this one, a strategic loss. Look at the rest of the candidates they proposed, none of them first stringers. Then that orange reality star popped up...

[Fast Walker 52]

4. Republicans are not only assholes, but most of them just aren't very bright

[StevieM]

6. If Hillary had won, which she would have if not for the last-minute Comey intervention, she would

have carried in a Democratic Senate.

Blunt (MO), Burr (NC), Johnson (WI) and Toomey (PA) are all Comey Republicans.

[Fast Walker 52]

3. a really excellent piece-- hard to argue with any of it

the main worry is that Trump bring some catastrophe before he is impeached or removed.

[BigmanPigman]

5. I doubt it.

Republicans are self serving, immoral sociopaths. They know right from wrong and never acknowledge their deeply corrupt agenda, even to themselves.