re: #162 Belafon

It’s good, but there’s optimism I keep mentioning. We’ve got bad people in bad places, but our Democracy will only be destroyed if people give up. And I feel like people are finally awake.

In that perverse bit of history, Republicans would have been able to do much more long term damage, basically becoming the ruling party for the next decade or so, had Hillary won. They would have cleaned up in the elections this year. But not only do they not have apathetic Democrats, their philosophy has been laid bare.

I can’t phrase this well but my fear going into 2016 was that had HRC won, we’d see another ugly midterm in 2018, and then Republicans would try to play off Dem in the WH fatigue in 2020. I mean I hate where we are but my belief was we were sort of in a rough situation either way.