2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: I smell a major conspiracy.... [View all]Yurovsky
(2,064 posts)so the trend is not positive. In both election years she had every imaginable advantage, yet either lost, or - best case scenario gor her this year - got dragged all the way into May before she could put away a challenger nobody in the media took seriously a year ago.
She's not well liked. Never will be. Even if she gets elected, she'll enter office with historic negatives and a likely impeachment trial for crimes real or imagined (or both).
Maybe she would surprise me. Maybe she'd work to empower the poor & working class. Maybe she'd eschew militarism and seek peaceful solutions in international disputes. Maybe she'd reform Wall Street & the mega banks. Maybe she'd make single payer a reality.
There's a lot of things she could do that would benefit most Americans. And I would love to see her accomplish them if she gets elected POTUS. But I fear that much of what I would like to see her accomplish runs counter to what many of her big donors would like to see her do. And she'll have a re-election on her mind not long after she gets settled back into the WH, which means she'll be raising money from those corporate interests who will oppose progressive change.
I'd love to be proven wrong if she does in fact prevail. I'm not holding my breath, but if she shows courage and promotes a center-left agenda, I'll seriously consider supporting her in 2020. For now, she's given me no reason to.