Is it me, or did it end up being totally irrelevant (in retrospect) whether Obama or Romney won in 2012?
Is it me, or did it end up being totally irrelevant (in retrospect) whether Obama or Romney won in 2012?My guess would be that, if Romney had won, he would also have won a second term - which would have made the racist/white supremacist element significantly less available to Trump in 2016.Ditto the people who take religion too seriously.No Trump => Beeg Diff.There’s also the dismemberment of the Affordable Care Act: my guess is that Romney would have gotten right on with it and my #1 Daughter-the-farmer would have been without affordable health insurance for the last 9 years….. As it is, she just has to make it through 2 more years before she is on medicare - and I have the financial means to get her over that hump if necessary.Dismantling the EPA? …. Dunno if Romney would have been that foolish…. but, again, if he were and/or the fossil fuel industries continued to make policy for the Repubs; we would be nine years into it instead of just one year.Letting extraction industries sump their toxic shit into streams and rivers ? …. Really ????Deficits?…. Every economist I have heard that did not have an ax to grind says that those big deficits were needed to prevent a 1930’s-type depression - and my guess would be that Romney would have gone that route too.Giving people a tax cut and then putting it on the national credit card? …. Dunno if the Repubs would have sunk that low on their own, or Trump was the straw that broke the camel’s back…Looping back to “Every economist I have heard that did not have an ax to grind…”, I select my information sources thusly: