O/T FAO mich & robus

[Robus]

A lot of sour faces over here, I can tell you. I don't know what kind of president Trump will be, but we will survive him. If he turns out to be awful, he will enjoy two years with Republican majorities in the House and Senate, then we will be back to divided government.

Honestly I'm not surprised. Hillary ran an incompetent campaign that failed to hold together the coalition that elected Obama. There must be millions of voters who voted for Obama in 2008 and 2012 and Trump in 2016 (well, I know of one...). Too many people found too many reasons not to vote for Hillary. Her neo-liberal economic proclivities and close ties to Wall Street turned away some. Her neo-conservative and hawkish foreign policy turned away others. Her mistreatment of Bernie Sanders alienated the younger and more idealistic Democratic voters. Recently she has taken to parroting the rhetoric and slogans of Black Lives Matter in hopes of drawing in the black voters who helped elect Obama. She failed, but in the process alienated even more white voters who have seen that movement for what it is. She made a classic mistake in labeling Trump supporters "a basket of deplorables, racists, ***ists, etc." In my estimation, the country is getting tired of that style of rhetoric from the left, which has decided it no longer needs to debate issues but can simply claim the moral high ground and label the opposition bigots. Then there was trail of lies and corruption that has surrounded the Clintons that goes back to the 1990s. Etc.

So, we had our Brexit moment and elected the Orange One.

[WOODLANDSWOLF]

I think that is a very fair and accurate description of what happened. In the end we have a loud mouth braggart for a president but as you say Robus, we will survive him as we have survived Obama. It's still better than having the criminal scum that is the Clinton's back in the Whitehouse