2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Question: If people are so certain that Trump would beat HRC (or Sanders), then why... [View all]SheilaT
(23,156 posts)One is would Hillary beat Donald? Would Sanders beat Donald? Current polling shows Sanders would but Hillary wouldn't.
The other, almost unrelated issue is: What kind of a President would Hillary be? What kind of a President would Bernie be? What kind of a President would Donald be? Personally, I think Bernie would be great, Hillary would be terrible, and Donald would be apocalyptic. While I am not remotely crazy about what I see as Hillary's policies, at least she had been in government, as has Bernie, and they both understand how the system works. Donald apparently sees the Presidency as just another reality show, where he can fire people if he doesn't care for them. He hasn't a clue how the system actually works. He doesn't quite get it that he won't be able to fire Supreme Court justices, or Senators, although he will be able to fire cabinet members. He won't be able to fire the heads of the many agencies that help run our country. He won't be able to implement laws immediately, or get rid of the ones he doesn't like. In short, our country would come to a screeching halt about 20 minutes after his inauguration.
It's somewhat scarier to realize that a lot of people who think he'd be just great as President also don't understand how the system actually works. They'll be rooting for him. They won't get why he can't just fire everyone he wants to fire. The won't understand that we have a Constitution that describes most of how things are done. Admittedly, the current Republicans in the Senate also don't understand that, but that's a bit of a separate conversation.