Trump's ultimate revenge.

[vorlon13]

The country was fucked with either outcome. Both candidates were fatally flawed for high office and either would have proven their well earned astonishingly high polling negatives would directly translate into grotesquely failed presidencies.

The oft noted (and relentlessly ignored) loss of 1000+ congressional, gubernatorial and state legislative of late on the dem side coupled with a catastrophically failed Hillary presidency would have been as bad for the DNC as either candidates presidency for the country would have been.

So, the choice last 11/8 was either a failed Trumply presidency and a devastating hit to the 'pubs, or a failed Hillary presidency and a lethal wound to the dems.

We are suffering the best outcome after all.

[Anomalocaris]

Your sad, and either epic perspectiveless or purposely demagogic, effort to draw equivalence between a merely par the course uninspiring candidate in a typically uninspired democracy with the epochal figure in annals of how democracy fail is getting really tired some.

[The Industrial Atheist]

I think he wasn't so much a glitch in the math as the result of effective gerrymandering and the undemocratic electoral college.

And don't forget the ten million or so voters who were disappeared in the run up to the election who, given their prior record would have voted 85-15 Democrat across the board.

When seven percent or more of the electorate disappers over the course of two years you have to wonder how much further the dictatorship will go.

Voter apathy is a big thing here in the U.S. I kind if wish we were like the Ozzie's and people were penalized for not voting.  I think we'd get a better result most of the time.

[Jackalope]

You'd get a better turnout of people who otherwise would not give a shit. I'd prefer the don't-give-a-shits stay home, personally.