I'll Just Say It Now -- Hillary Can't Win

[SheilaT]

100. I, for one, believe you are correct.

What the fans of Hillary don't understand is how thoroughly reviled she is outside of the Democratic Party. And how disliked she is by a fair number inside it.

What bothers me the most about all the Hillary-love is that it keeps those who adore her from either assessing her actual chances in a clear-sighted way, but more importantly has kept anyone else from being able to be considered in any rational way.

There really are some other Democrats out there who ought to be on the radar but who aren't because Hillary is sucking up all the oxygen in the room. Elizabeth Warren is obvious, but less obvious is Sherrod Brown, and maybe a couple of Democratic Governors out there, as few and far between as they are these days. So long as the loud chant for Hillary drowns out everything else, there's no possibility anyone else gets any kind of serious consideration.

After the Republican wins yesterday, I think a lot of things are going to get a lot worse long before they get better. Because you know that they are not going to be the least bit conciliatory, will do everything possible to make good on their promises to get rid of the ACA, to privatize Social Security, to gut all pensions, especially those in the public sector, since the private sector ones have already been destroyed. What is it going to take for all those who have voted for all those things to wake up and understand how much worse off they're going to be? But then, all the survivalists, all those who think guns are far more important than human lives, all the racists, everyone who has a grudge against anyone who has anything more, all those people will more likely feel completely justified in the complete destruction of what we used to call the safety net.

Unless, just unless the next year or so is so awful that there is a genuine revolt against what they are going to try to do, but I'm not going to hold my breath.