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In reply to the discussion: My swan song, come get your grave dancing on, if that's your thing. [View all]zentrum
(9,870 posts)The Republican base despises her and their Reps will tie her up in endless investigations and impeachment threats from day one. It's an utterly predictable dance between the Reps, Clinton and the media.
The Republican base actually respects Bernie and understands that he's for ordinary people and so are not ruled by the same hatred that fuels them to thwart Clinton. If she wins, it will four years of Reality Politics. She'll concede more and more to the right just to survive. So much for getting anything passed. (Ohnot to mention she isn't deeply impassioned by any program. She would never go to bat for single payer for example.)
I understand this poster completely. The Democratic Party has left us and yet may have sown the seeds of their own undoing, because now, they've finally picked a candidate that Independents, the Democratic base, and Republicans all distrust and dislike. That is not a recipe for a successful presidency. I wouldn't want a person who already had so much enmity in the ranks to be even the president of the local PTA.
Bernie would have gotten a lot done for us.