More Likely in a Clinton Presidency: Grand Compromise or "Vast RW Conspiracy"?
Hillary Clinton supporters seem to agree that a President Hillary Clinton is likely to be inaugurated with a Republican majority in the House, and possibly the Senate. Indeed, a major part of the rationale for Clinton's candidacy is that her "moderate" policy positions will allow her to bridge the ideological divide, and forge bipartisan consensus in Washington.
But even as they affirm this manifest ability to cooperate constructively with Republicans, many Hillary Clinton supporters decry a decades-long "vast right-wing conspiracy" to derail any and all of Clinton's political ambitions -- extending back as far as her time as First Lady of Arkansas, and continuing to the present-day "manufactured E-Mail server scandal".
It appears as though these two framings present two fundamentally incompatible predictions for the Republican response to a Hillary Clinton presidency. So which one is it?
Will these Republicans, who have floated plots to impeach President Obama without legal justification; who, to this point, have succeeded in convincing nearly 68 percent of Americans that Clinton behaved illegally or unethically in the handling of her E-Mails; and who will have conspired to make her a historically unpopular president from the day she assumes office, ... will these Republicans continue these otherworldly efforts to discredit Clinton? Or will they, instead, relent for the first time, and abandon the opportunity to oppose a historically unpopular president because her tax proposal is more moderate than that of Bernie Sanders?
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