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I see a a silver lining for progressives
November 10, 2016 at 2:42 am
If Hillary won lets face it, it would have been 4 years of politics being dragged through wet concrete. Jason Chaffetz was going to find any way possible to indict Hillary.
Isn't it better that Trump and the GOP fuck some things up and the Dems can recruit likable progressives and run on a positive message?
Supreme Court is the big loss though
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RE: I see a a silver lining for progressives
November 10, 2016 at 3:32 am
(November 10, 2016 at 2:42 am)Won2blv Wrote: If Hillary won lets face it, it would have been 4 years of politics being dragged through wet concrete. Jason Chaffetz was going to find any way possible to indict Hillary.
Isn't it better that Trump and the GOP fuck some things up and the Dems can recruit likable progressives and run on a positive message?
Supreme Court is the big loss though
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RE: I see a a silver lining for progressives
November 10, 2016 at 12:29 pm
Much damage will be done.
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RE: I see a a silver lining for progressives
November 10, 2016 at 1:21 pm
Much damage will be done. But a blue Senate in two years will prevent another far right supreme court justice being appointed after Trump replaces Scalia. Bush created an opportunity for a blue Senate, Trump will do the same, faster. We get the Senate, then make Trump a four year president. We could wind up in a stronger position in 2020 than we would have if Clinton had won.
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RE: I see a a silver lining for progressives
November 10, 2016 at 3:11 pm
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I think this is cynical thinking. Hillary wasn't perfect but she was someone that would at least move in the right direction for progress
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RE: I see a a silver lining for progressives
November 10, 2016 at 5:35 pm
The thing I was concerned about with a Hillary win would be that Democrats would have gotten complacent thinking they'll always have an easy path to the Presidency. I really hope this election is a wake up call for the Dems. I hope they do their own post-election autopsy, and actually learn from it.
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RE: I see a a silver lining for progressives
November 11, 2016 at 4:44 am
The GOP did a post mortem after Romney lost. Then promptly ignored it. The reward for that institutional cowardice is Trump, who bent over the GOP and made them his bitch. He took out Ted Cruz by calling him a serial killer, insulted his wife and suggested that Cruz's father did the Kennedy assassination - and Cruz endorsed him!
I can't think of a more perfect example of the GOP being fucked in the ass than that.
That's the reward for not following through on a postmortem - someone from the outside literally does what Trump accomplished.
The DNC better do that postmortem before they get it in the shorts. Tempting fate is a poor strategy.
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