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Yes. The Judiciary is quite compromised thanks to electing that idiot and will be for years. I take solace knowing that some people found Hillary unlikeable, because that was a rational basis to ignore her ample experience and demonstrated skill in governance.
/s because JFC this timeline
We should all blame Hillary for this shit, too. She ran a shitty campaign and made ridiculously short-sighted political moves. I voted for her, but I was mad about it because it was like watching a slow motion train wreck from inside the train.
There are very few candidates who could have lost against Trump but the Democratic Party sure ran one.
I’d have taken her gladly, over TFG, but you are abs not wrong. She was never going to be another Bill - a lot of his appeal in campaigning was that he felt approachable even on TV.
She never had that skill, and didn’t seem capable of developing it.
Can relate, lots of my work and face to face interactions are basically by rote - I’ve honed the scripts over the years to get a thin veneer of spontaneity and make it believable rather than robotic, but…. That works because I lean waaaay into it. Hillary feels scripted and robotic.
Don’t ask me how we rejected her, but our friends across the pond elected the May-Bot tho. While their politics are diametrically opposite, Hillary and Theresa are very similar personalities - or lack thereof.
FWIW, if anyone is aware of a book that meaningfully compares the two, I’d love to know about it. The handful of serious authors who approach UK political bios that I’m aware of don’t do so in a comparative way.
It wasn't just electing Trump, let's not forget McConnell and the other GOP goons obstructing Obama's judge appointments and crippling the judiciary until they had "their guy" (whoever with an R) in office to fill the positions. Trump wouldn't have the outsized appointments if not for that groundwork.
And yet all the Trump judges got appointed.
For those who don’t know, search “McConnell nuclear option” to learn the depravity these twisted twits sank to to pack the courts like this.
Its not just him, those judges were confirmed by the legislature. Putting the entire blame solely on his shoulders let's them off the hook.
They are just as much to blame as him.
Absolutely.
It's not just him, it is McConnell (and friends) who held all those seats open. They were held open for as long as it would take to get a Republican in office, at least not a black person, but really they were ready to cripple the whole branch of government for years if need be.
(Of course the Democrats basically went "yeah that's fine we're not going to do anything about it".)
I think that's due to the inexplicable resilience of the Democrats belief that there is any shame or principle remaining in current Republican politics. They literally purged a Cheney (!) for not being sufficiently right wing.
It seems to finally be sinking in that precedent and tradition and compromise simply do not matter to the GOP.
There comes a point where ignorance, willful or not, is actually worse than the alternatives...