Preaching to the choir in this town.
If he takes Pennsylvania and Ohio the Democrats could be in a lot of trouble.
It looks right now like Republican control of the Congress - the House and the Senate - is safe, no matter who takes the White House.
And so?
So Hillary's agenda is DOA and her preferred nominees for the Supremes may not even get a hearing, assuming she wins.
Republicans now waiting for 2017 may well prefer to wait for 2021, reminding everyone the constitution does not require there be any particular number of Supremes.
And if Trump wins?
He and the Congressional Republicans will add a few Supremes, putting not just Obamacare but a whole lot of the legacy of The Great Society and The New Deal in danger - and so putting me and my wife personally in danger.
God knows what else the Republican Congress might do with this "master of the art of the deal."
But it is highly questionable the same folks who have given us generations of free trade treaties would implement his protectionist agenda.
So that would also be DOA, most likely, if this is not one of the things he changes his mind about and just drops, anyway.
Some of what Trump purports to stand for and his supporters want deserves a much better champion than Il Duce.
Nor would he get his Wall, and neither would he get much help from the Congress in trying to deport 11 million people, no matter how much he yelps about it.
He might get changes to legislation significantly cutting low-wage legal immigration, though.
What if Bernie won, the Bernie of that NYT manifesto, and faced that Republican Congress?
Just the thing to exacerbate polarization.
Medicare for All?
Free tuition at all public colleges and universities?
What, are you high?
An invitation to paralysis and exacerbated polarization.
Sharpening the contradictions, one might say.
Just another way to seriously damage the republic.
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