How would things be different had Hillary Clinton been elected?
If Hillary Clinton had been elected, she would have been hounded relentlessly by right-wingers about emails and Benghazi. So far, no difference.The GOP-run Congress would not have passed a lot of legislation. Still no difference.The GOP would nominate and cheer Nazis and white supremecists for elected office. Still looking for the difference there.But there are some things that would be very, very different, for better…Russian meddling in our elections and our wider society would have been more thoroughly investigated.The US would not be in a self-started multi-front trade war.The Supreme Court would not be tilting as far to the right.Obamacare would likely have expanded by now instead of shrunk.Our press and law enforcement agencies would not be under attack by the president.We would not rip apart refugee families for the crime of requesting asylum.Policies to improve wages along with the rest of the economy would get more play, and the tax cuts for the rich would have been less heinous.We wouldn’t be badmouthing our allies and kowtowing to our enemies.… and for worse…We would not have had the same liberal and demi-socialist energizing and backlash currently underway.Corporate media false equivalence between right-wing distortions and lies and facts that align with liberals would still abound.Republicans would be launching their attacks against a powerful president instead of a semi-retired private citizen, which would lend credence to their attacks with their base and some undecided citizens.Russia would work much harder to destabilize our polity.Stephen Colbert would do a lot less drinking on TV. OK, maybe that one’s mixed.While I had concerns about Hillary’s hawkish nature and some of her pro-corporate stances, I had no worries that society would continue moving forward with her leadership. This is not fully the case with the current guy.The US really jumped the shark when we collectively elected Donald Trump, but the reaction to his election and subsequent drastic remodeling of the body politic may be what we need to move forward—assuming we survive his presidency, that is.
As an American conservative, what do you dislike about the Republican Party?
As a self-identifying "American conservative" holding moderate views but who predominantly votes Republican, here are my top three "dislikes" about the modern Republican Party (a.k.a., the "GOP"):(1) We nominated Trump...and then we voted him into office. (Unforgivable.)(2) The "Tea Party" of today, which went from being a grassroots conservative movement espousing the best parts of libertarianism, fiscal responsibility, and political reform (and the successor of sorts to the "Contract with America" from the previous decade) to an embarrassingly overexposed fit-for-reality-TV sideshow of political self-interests and empty us-versus-them rhetoric ... ultimately resulting in a President Trump.(3) The elected members of both Houses of Congress presently in control (i.e., Republicans) that have UTTERLY FAILED to distance themselves from the 500-pound "opportunist" in the next room who does not fit into either political party and should never have been taken seriously by ANYONE, much less any sitting Republican Congresspersons...the "next room" being the Oval Office, of course...(Yep, pretty much everything THIS CONSERVATIVE dislikes about the Republican Party can be tied directly or indirectly to President Trump. Go figure.)Thanks for the A2A Habib!Original Question: "As an American conservative, what do you dislike about the Republican Party?"