For one Trump will give them at least one, more likely two even more Supreme Court Justices, so some of the most right-wing conservatives we've seen in the past half century will decide the law of the land for the next twenty to thirty years.
The Republicans will have control of all three branches of government for the next few years and there is a whole lot that they can do with that. As a foreigner, what worries me most is that American progress on climate change policy will be set back by another 15 to 20 years as Obama's progress will be erased and there is no progress to hope for until another Democrat is elected in four or eight years. Russia can also be expected to threaten Europe with more confidence; hopefully our defense spending will increase to pick up the slack.
The Democrats certainly brought this upon themselves. People say the primaries against Sanders were rigged, but really the problem wasn't that the DNC pushed Clinton. The problem was Clinton herself. Clinton soundly rejected Sanders' populist ideals when almost half of the party and a great number of independents supported them. All it took at that point were a few leaks and a letter from Comey to rip the blue collar worker's vote from her.
In what sense? She didn't budge on the $15 minimum wage, universal healthcare nor free education. Those were some of Sanders' key issues.
She understandably also stayed away from some more controversial issues like marijuana legalization and NSA surveillance.
Where she actually flipped her position on issues, she did so without drawing any attention to it, as if to be able to flop back quietly after the election. On paper, she opposed the TPP, but it's no more than a bullet on her website. I don't recall one bad word she said about trade agreements or even "just" TPP, which she had already sacrificed. Trump and Sanders could give entire speeches on the subject.
Can we stop with the 'Clinton rejected sanders policies' line? She pretty much accepted most of them. Bernie supporters are idiots for not getting behind her. You reap what you sow.
Yes, and the DNC is now reaping what they sowed with their arrogant, condescending, and entitled campaign strategy of railroading through the least likeable and most corrupt Democratic candidate in living memory.
That's great. But she was still the nominee and they had two choices. They got one of them. If they didn't want him and didn't vote for her, then they're fucking idiots.
Publicly she may have done so, but privately the Podesta emails show them joking about pretending to adopt Sander's positions during the primaries.
But yes, Bernie supporters are such idiots for not getting behind a deeply corrupt person who would have been rightfully impeached within 6 months, if elected. How could you not love a candidate who runs a fake charity, has ties to child sex trafficking, and cheated throughout the entire process?
The Republicans will have control of all three branches of government for the next few years and there is a whole lot that they can do with that. As a foreigner, what worries me most is that American progress on climate change policy will be set back by another 15 to 20 years as Obama's progress will be erased and there is no progress to hope for until another Democrat is elected in four or eight years. Russia can also be expected to threaten Europe with more confidence; hopefully our defense spending will increase to pick up the slack.
The Democrats certainly brought this upon themselves. People say the primaries against Sanders were rigged, but really the problem wasn't that the DNC pushed Clinton. The problem was Clinton herself. Clinton soundly rejected Sanders' populist ideals when almost half of the party and a great number of independents supported them. All it took at that point were a few leaks and a letter from Comey to rip the blue collar worker's vote from her.