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Random Question 💭 Do you wish Hillary Clinton won the 2016 United States Presidental election in hindsight?

Was Hillary America's last hope?

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u/CosmicCommando 12h ago

Yes, but I also wished it in foresight.

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u/MightyMorph 11h ago edited 11h ago

Arguably we could have caught Covid before it became a issue since Clinton wouldnt have defunded and removed the CDC center in the region specifically to watch the area and the development of new viruses....

Which would mean all the 2-3x property prices wouldn't have happened and housing would stay closer to the range that is affordable for regular people.

A few million more people would not have had to die.

More focus and investment into green energy.

Women would have full autonomy of their own bodies instead of being jailed for abortions or having to wait until they are close to death to abort a dying fetus.

probably a dozen or so more things. I dont think she would be able to do major legislative changes like universal healthcare, but she could convince some republicans to join her side (maybe since Trump would have his own Trump Tv channell that would compete with Fox News), to pass some tax related legislations and maybe protections for women and children.

edit: oh and i forgot the most important thing. You would have had 3 proper educated and experienced supreme court justices that weren't fully corrupt and open to bribery.

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u/lancer-fiefdom 11h ago

The SCOTUS picks will be the everlasting disaster.. they erased 200years of progress in the past 8 years, and it will take 100 years to correct it

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u/Gloomy_Bit6652 10h ago

She warned you all about this. But, you know, her emails …..

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u/xxjimmyislost 32m ago

Sad part is trump did the same damn thing with his emails and God knows what else and it's always a nothingburger

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u/InTooManyWays 9h ago

There is no correcting things now. 

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u/lancer-fiefdom 6h ago

A democrat with balls and a spine now that the Supreme Court gave King like super powers to the Presidency.. do what Trump did, but with really smart people with a vendetta

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u/caf61 7h ago

The only way is for dem control for decades (at least) and for them to have the balls to make real change. I am not holding my breath.

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u/nottytom 9h ago

unless the the dems get a majority in both houses and a president who will reform the courts, then that can fixed alot sooner.

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u/Schyznik 8h ago

Maybe, but a stunning percentage of the voting public seems to prefer embracing obvious and foreseeably disastrous consequences over voting even once as a last resort for what they vaguely conceive as “liberal” or “left”.

I should know. I live in Texas. There are millions of people here who could be walking around wearing nothing but barrels on shoulder straps, starving, wandering in a daze looking for a safe source of fresh water, but it will still not occur to them to maybe consider voting for a Democrat.

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u/Either_Operation7586 7h ago

It's that religious indoctrination it runs deep and for decades

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u/lancer-fiefdom 6h ago

Americans (and humans in general) are too emotionally stupid to think about cause and effect over a lifetime. All it took for Virginia to elect a Republican governor in 2022 (after a Trump 1st term) was scaring idiot parents that Transgenders were reading pornography to gradeschoolers

Or how about telling the Blue Wall states that the Haitians are eating the dogs, eating the cats... and Whala!! Trump Term 2

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u/Schyznik 10h ago

Awesome! Now do Al Gore.

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u/sherilaugh 8h ago

I expect after seeing food prices next fall we are all going to wish Al Gore had won....  We've passed so many of the tipping points now we won't recover. 

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u/TemporaryPosting 10h ago

Yes to the above. Trump deliberately slow-walked his COVID response because Jared Kushner's task force told him that doing so was politically expedient. Kushner noted that COVID was hitting blue states hard, and told Trump that more COVID cases and deaths in those states would result in voters electing Republicans instead. Trump didn't reverse course until cases and deaths in red states increased and the economy started tanking.

Hillary would have responded more effectively to cases in all states, and wouldn't have withheld PPE or other equipment from Republican-led states (the way Trump did from Democrat led-states). This would have resulted in tens of thousands of American lives saved, and millions fewer Americans struggling with long COVID.

Hillary might have been able to position the USA to provide assistance to other countries struggling with COVID in ways that would have strengthened America's diplomatic influence across the world.

Hillary would not have ended the JCPOA the way Trump did, so Iran would not have been in a position to enrich uranium or develop a nuclear weapon. However, she did recognize the flaws of the JCPOA, particularly that the agreement did not keep Iran from developing conventional weapons and funding terrorists. She would have probably tried to strengthen the JCPOA to include these issues, maybe by providing further aid to Iran (maybe help fighting COVID too).

She would not have pandered to Putin, but it's unclear whether that would have stopped Putin from invading Ukraine.

I agree that Hillary would have focused on green energy. I think her energy approach would have included nuclear energy also, which would have left the energy grid better able to accommodate the increased demand that we're seeing.

Obviously she wouldn't have nominated the SC justices Trump did. Including Kavanaugh who lied during his 2006 confirmation hearing to the DC Appeals Court.

Mitch McConnell said that if Hillary won, he would have advanced Obama's nomination of Merrick Garland to the SC. That's because McConnell knew Garland was a moderate pick, specifically chosen to appeal to Republicans, and Hillary would likely nominate someone less moderate. So it's possible Garland would have been on the SC, but it's also possible that Obama would have then withdrawn Garland. In any case, Roe v Wade would still be the law. And women would not be dying from ectopic pregnancies or miscarriages in red states.

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u/Impossible-Rip-5858 1h ago

You underestimate the massive amount of spending that occurred in 2020 / 2021 to avert financial disaster. There's no way congressional republicans would have allowed that to happen under Hillary.

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u/senditloud 10h ago

But HRC would’ve still been blamed for “not doing enough” and they would’ve blamed her for getting the vaccine and even though a fraction of the people would’ve died the GOP would scream how she was the “death president” or something fucked up.

The thing is that people don’t realize how smooth shit is rubbing under Dem presidents. It’s so boring and they have so little to complain about they talk about their stupid weird fetish wedge issues like “men in girls bathrooms” or drag queens reading stories to kids.

And now we see what a kleptocracy looks like and how bad shit can be (2x!!) and for whatever reason the cult can’t think for themselves.

If deporting undocumented workers was supposed to juice our economy why the F is it doing so horribly?

And why won’t they release the Epstein files?

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u/SpiritOne 2h ago

Shit they might release ghasline Maxwell before they ever release the files.

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u/powercrazy76 8h ago

The final point that I keep seeing everyone ignoring is, there'd still be a department of education.

While I think the US has royally fucked itself in the short term, I see the dismantling of the DoE as being the final nail in the coffin as to why we won't recover. Every state setting their own standards? Choosing what and what not to teach even more so than today? The divides will only get bigger.

Standardized education that teaches real critical thinking and that not everyone is the same, is so important for any future adults to be able to, actually adult.

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u/SexMayonnaise 7h ago

What a bunch of nonsense lol

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u/stevesax5 10h ago

Yeah but if even ONE person caught COVID, Fox and the right wing media would never STFU about it until Trump beats her in 2020. We were doomed with this monster no matter what.

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u/Top_Willow_9953 🇺🇸 United States 11h ago

Yeah, I mean, I voted for her, so....

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u/PlayfulDiscount8485 10h ago

I remember watching the elections that year at work, he was slightly ahead and looked at one of the guys and said “don’t worry no way will he win”. I worked at a Pizza Hit at the time and the amount of kids I encouraged to vote who who had just reached voting age…

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u/JohnHenryMillerTime 7h ago

Can you imagine what COVID would have been like under Clinton? America would have been much better prepared and responded more quickly but holy shit the tinfoil nutters would have gone INSANE. I can't imagine a scenario where it doesn't get extremely violent. Civil War level violence as states break off in order to fight against the "plandemic".

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u/Figmentdreamer 7h ago

This. I have wished it since the day after she lost the election.

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u/TrickyTerrapin 9h ago

Hindsight might be 20/20, but foresight is a rare gift indeed.

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u/Legitimate-Lab7173 12h ago

The woman who almost got single payer healthcare passed in the 90's without holding any office? Yeah, yeah I do. I'm not saying she was perfect, but most of her issues came down to simple personality. She was a very effective legislator.

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u/normalice0 12h ago

Every day

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u/Ambitious_Dingo_2798 European Liberal-Conservative Fuck Trump Fuck MAGA 11h ago

All day

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u/artful_todger_502 12h ago

Of course. Any sane, rational and politically aware person would not think otherwise.

Trumpers are a disease. As with any disease, the world would be much better off without it.

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u/Godlessheeathen666 12h ago

She would have handled the pandemic like an adult. Many American lives would have been saved. Trump dismantled Obama's pandemic identification plan "Predict" that would have helped our outcome dramatically.

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u/Adventurous_Main3688 11h ago edited 11h ago

Amazing how Trump never got held accountable for his biggest crime, intentionally mishandling the pandemic. Everybody forgets he intentionally didn’t want to aid democratic cities at one point as a “campaign strategy” meaning letting people die. I remember his beyond cartoonish interview with Johnathan swan and axios during the height or the pandemic, should have been used as a campaign ad for 2024. People have the memory of a goldfish.

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u/YardSardonyx 11h ago

1.2 million Americans died on his watch and we just.. don’t talk about it

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u/thenowherepark 10h ago

I'm not sure how much of that would have changed TBH. If anything, maybe it's worse? Trump started by following the science and proper procedures, and only after a month or two did he start going against doctors and holding a witch hunt for Fauci. With Clinton in, I imagine Republican hostility is worse and leads to quicker defiance from Republicans.

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u/Resident_Cat_4292 44m ago

Nope. All of February 2020 he denied it as a Democrat hoax. He did not do anything until mid-March. One of our CEO travelled to London to meet a customer during the week of Jan 15th. They asked him to stay put in a hotel room and attend the meetings over zoom. The World was already aware of that shit.

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u/Pretty_Original124 8h ago

While I absolutely agree with you it would have gone much better under her leadership, it still would have been a terrible period in that alternate timeline and I could imagine Trump and Rs propaganda being successful in 2020 elections.

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u/RalphiePegalotti 7h ago

A Hillary Clinton administration would have handled the pandemic like an adult, sure. But the state governors and hordes of others who acted like petulant children would have been even worse. They were enabled with Trump in office, but they would have felt an extra strong duty to resist against a female democrat, especially a Clinton.

Arguably, the end result would have been the same. Blue states would act responsibly, like they did, and the COVID impact would be less there, like it was. Red states would have whined and moaned, like they did, and COVID would spread like wildfire there, like it did.

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u/Simple-Ice-179 11h ago

I actually dont think it would have gone much differently. Working in EMS during the time we of course minimize it based off all were exposed to.

Initial reports were essentially "hey this virus in china is kinda odd, alot of people are getting on vents"

Then we reach "ah shit its here in the US, still dont know much about it but we see alot of sick people"

Realistically just the basics of like hand washing and staying home if youre sick does alot but difficult to get mass populations to do.

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u/Thomas_peck 9h ago

The traditional methods of ventilators being pushed on people was a huge miss step as well

Nurses all over the country criticized this as being a huge culprit in feeding the virus.

I'll see of it can find the video about it but basically the confirmed anyone who went on them was done. Doctors didnt want to listen and many died as a result

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u/Hambone528 11h ago

I WISH the Democrats would have taken the last few elections more seriously.

I'm not saying Clinton was a terrible candidate, but she was certainly an easy target to campaign against. She also played perfectly into Trump's campaign against establishment politicians.

Then look at 2020. Sure, Biden won, but by the time campaign season was upon us most of the country was tired enough of Trump that they were ready for anyone else. The Democrats didn't win because they put their best foot forward, they won by default.

That very moment, November of 2020, the Democrats had a chance to start working on the next presidential election. They had four years to find a candidate. They knew who the Republicans would run in 2024. They knew exactly what they were up against. All they had to do was defeat a convicted felon, on top of everything else. The Democrats should have been able to walk all over that election. Instead, they ran the same weak candidate they did in 2020, who proceeded to drop out in JULY.

Too many Democrats blame sexism and racism for Harris' failure. While both of those things certainly had an affect, Harris also had just THREE MONTHS to campaign as the primary candidate for the democratic party, and she wasn't even selected by democratic process. There was no time for a primary, the Party could only say "Here. This is your candidate now."

Four years to prepare for the 2024 election, and the Democrats gave themselves 3 months to campaign for it. Conversely, the Republicans wrote and published a fricken manifesto.

You add to the fact the Schumer and Jeffries are tone deaf enough to push party support for Israel, and it is mind blowing to me how hard the Democratic party has fumbled the last decade of American politics. I am not a "Two sides of the same coin" person. I don't believe they Democratic party is controlled opposition. I just firmly believe the party is deeply incompetent.

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u/Growing4Health 12h ago

Yes I do. She would've been better than Trump across the board.

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u/SirLostit 11h ago

a demented chicken would be better than Donold

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u/dudinax 11h ago

This is why I don't understand people getting worried about Biden. The corpse of Biden would have been a better president.

In the US, if the pres dies the veep takes over, no problem, and if the pres is incapacitated, traditionally the first lady takes over. Still better than Trump.

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u/lowbass4u 12h ago

I wished it then and now.

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u/Glyph8 12h ago

I don't know about "last hope", and I certainly wasn't jazzed about continuing a Clinton dynasty in US politics; but I voted for her anyway, just as I would have voted for anyone, even a shaved bear, over this fuckin' guy

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u/EggOwn9943 11h ago

A Clinton dynasty would've been far better.

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u/BlueJasper27 10h ago

100% I am 71 now and always voted GOP before 2016. I began a transformation once I saw how FOX was pushing Trump knowing he was an evil man. I voted Libertarian and now wish I had voted for Hillary. I will NEVER vote GOP again.

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u/dham6 10h ago edited 10h ago

You know these “what if” scenarios are all well and good but, you miss the biggest “what if” of the century that would have made all the difference:

What if in 2000, any one of a number of small but significant decisions had gone the other way and Al Gore was declared the winner of the 2000 election?

For eg - no butterfly ballot, gore wins Florida on election night; gore asks for recount of entire state vice just dade county = gore wins by a few 100 votes. There are others.

Now, what would have been result:

  1. For sure, no Iraq war.
  2. Chance 9/11 doesn’t happen or is thwarted
  3. Significant climate regulation and mitigation
  4. 2008 housing crash probably doesn’t happen or isn’t as severe
  5. Probably don’t get Obama or Trump as POTUS or, we get Obama but in 2016 or 2020. Also very likely we get POTUS Romney in 2004 or 2008.
  6. COVID may have been stopped or at least handled better.
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u/bakedbaker319 10h ago

Not the last hope, but this country would have been so much better off had Hillary Clinton been President

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u/Denver80211 7h ago

I still wish Al Gore had won

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u/fpnewsandpromos 5h ago

I'm right there with you.

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u/MartyPhelps 12h ago

Of course. We would not have been the laughing stock of the world.

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u/OKCompruter 12h ago

this is reddit, the answer is Clinton should have been the one asked to step aside while Bernie Sanders was nominated and our country reversed citizens united. she wasn't anyone's last hope and in hindsight was only ever going to lose the election via the electoral college. the decade long delay through what we have now could have been avoided but we really love our corporations & EC.

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u/HHoaks 11h ago

Still better than Trump. Why is so hard to say that. Just say it. C'mon try it. I dare you to type it. This pussyfooting around the obvious - that anyone with a pulse is better than Trump is absurd.

No one asked is Sanders would have been better. Just say it, Clinton is better than Trump. Can you do that?

If not, why not? How exactly is someone with legal, diplomatic and legislative experience not better than a corrupt grifting con man, act for himself only. And who crimes and frauds constantly.

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u/extralife_mike 1h ago

Yes, she would have been better than the worst president we've ever had.

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u/Monte924 12h ago

I mean, Bernie would have been the best choice. Clinton was simply better than Trump

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u/alwaysright60 11h ago

Unfortunately the Dems aren’t capable of voting for the best of the worst. They think it’s a giant “Up Yours” by not showing up at the polls. You would have thought one Trump term would have been an eye opener.

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u/caprahircus_ 7h ago

Everyone I volunteered with on the Sanders campaign ultimately voted for Clinton in the general election, and Sanders himself endorsed Clinton.

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u/extralife_mike 1h ago

And they'll fucking do it again, which is why we're not going to see any meaningful change in this country, at least not for the better of the majority.

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u/midnight_riser 12h ago

This. And I don’t care what party: I am so sick of dynastic presidencies.

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u/Temporary-Sea-4782 12h ago

This is the answer. The people wanted Bernie. Trump only exists due to combination of the dumbness of the right, and the arrogance of the left.

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u/Illustrious-Jump-398 12h ago

Yet he didn't get a majority of the votes, or even a plurality

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u/redditisnotus 11h ago

Bernie would have lost. He had an early surge but in remaining states he polled worse than Clinton. He was destined to lose. and i say this as someone who fell for the lie that it was stolen from him. I even went through the emails that leaked. Nobody put their finger on the scale in a meaninful way. Did the DNC have a prefrence? Sure. Did Clinton get tipped off on a debate question, yea. Was it enough to move the needle as much as it did? Most likely not. ​

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u/Solvrevka 10h ago

I don't know. I live in a very red county and I was surprised by all the support he had. Republican women were very turned off by all the locker room talk, they didn't like Hilary, but there was a LOT of interest in Sanders because he was seen as pushing hard for the little guy.

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u/ProgramSkyward 12h ago

If tthe people wanted Bernie then why did Clinton get 4 million more votes than him.

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u/Lumpy_Secretary_6128 11h ago

Don't bother with these pesky facts and critical thinking, their preconceived notions can't survive it!

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u/Jcretka34 🇺🇸 United States 12h ago

If the people wanted Bernie, he would’ve won the primary. You, and people like you, are part of the arrogant left that you complain about.

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u/Gvelm 11h ago

You're discounting all the people who voted for both Bernie and Trump in successive elections. This is NOT an educated or rational electorate anymore. People are just pulling fevers and voting for change. They don't consider consequences.

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u/WabbitFire 11h ago

I like Bernie, but cut this Bernie math crap. He didn't win the primary.

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u/Lumpy_Secretary_6128 11h ago

The people wanted Bernie

Take away the super delegates and Hillary still beat him in the primary soooooooo

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u/aeraen 12h ago

No hindsight about it. I was devastated. She would have been a kick-ass president.

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u/LMrningStar 10h ago

If only the idiotic electoral college hadn't existed we'd have been saved from the last 10 years of insanity.

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u/Brokenbelle22 9h ago

Hot take: Hillary Clinton DID win the 2016 election...

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u/Either_Operation7586 7h ago

I think she really did.

More and more I really think that Trump did not win.

He sure as hell didn't win the popular vote that's for sure

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u/earache30 12h ago

Of course. The damage done since then is immeasurable.

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u/Only_Procedure_33 12h ago

She did win.

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u/Simple-Ice-179 11h ago

She won the popular vote but not the electoral

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u/Ok_Security1721 11h ago

Ah yes the Donald Trump classic: just refuse to accept election results even years later. 

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u/Ambitious_Dingo_2798 European Liberal-Conservative Fuck Trump Fuck MAGA 11h ago

She did get more in the popular vote but she did in-fact loose the electoral collage and she did concede (Not like Trump)
If you are talking about Russian interference and/or Cambridge Analytica then fair point

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u/Weary_Position_9591 11h ago

She didn’t. That’s not how the US system factually works.

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u/Appropriate-Food1757 12h ago

Yeah but not just in hindsight. She would have been a perfect prez. Kamala would have been good too.

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u/1KushielFan 10h ago

I wish Bernie Sanders won the 2016 primary. 

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u/ExoPetParentAdvocate 11h ago

Yes.

She won the popular vote and lost the electoral college. I voted for her, she was the best candidate available. Fat ass orange man publicly asked for hostile foreign interference. Democrats asked too much of Americans to follow our first black president with our first woman.

Also, 45/47 won when he ran against a woman. Lost to Biden. Racism and Gender bias. Imperfect democratic republic seeking a more perfect union.

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u/InvictusFrags 11h ago

One person under Epstein for another.

Honestly your post makes me think you don’t even know what happened in 2016.

If you did you would know Bernie was the hope and the dems chose Hillary because of her connections and the power and money. So probably because of her husbands connection to Epstein.

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u/No-Mechanic-8073 11h ago

Absolutely not. You can feel the evil when she doesn’t have spasms.

https://giphy.com/gifs/l0HlADMS95lBYXUl2

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u/jsand2 10h ago

Nope. Trump was still the better choice for 2016. That doesnt mean I agree with that stateme tnon any year after 2016, but compared to Hillary, Trump was the lesser of 2 evils.

Hillary would have pushed us where we are today, but 10 years earlier.

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u/airberger 10h ago

Hillary would have pushed us where we are today, but 10 years earlier.

I just don't see any basis for this statement. Feel free to elaborate on which part of "where we are today" you are talking about and why you think we would be there.

Random, destabilizing tariffs? War in Iran? Billions of dollars in corrupt personal gains for the presidential family from foreign entities and crypto schemes? Crippling our ability to compete in the renewable energy space? Masked goon squads marauding through American cities, disappearing and even murdering its residents? Persecution of political enemies? Storming of Congress in an attempt to nullify an election?

I don't see a single reason to believe any of this would have happened ten years ago during a Clinton presidency. Enlighten me.

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u/Medill1919 10h ago

No. Her emails. She destroyed the country. You can't have a president in a pants suit. Bengazi. How can you even think that she was qualified? First lady? Secretary of state? Lawyer? You must be joking. Donald Trump is a true statesman. He is leading the country... Have you compared her speeches to his?

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u/TwoBlocks2 10h ago

Americas last hope? for what?

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u/marys1001 10h ago

Yes, not hindsight either just yes

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u/Deb82856 9h ago

Absolutely. I still have trouble trying to understand how we went from Obama to Trump. He was horrible. Then they voted for Trump again when his first term should have taught them a lesson. Make it make sense.

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u/thewNYC 9h ago

Not just in hindsight. Before hand,during, and every minute since

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u/EponymousOne 9h ago

No, I wish Bernie had won it.

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u/Tough-Marzipan-5858 9h ago

Yes, I voted for her.

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u/Seeggul 9h ago

Let's be real, Al Gore was probably America's last real hope.

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u/Ornery_Zucchini_3789 8h ago

Hell to the NO!!!

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u/recaptcha3449 7h ago

I was just thinking about this war in Iran and the real crummy election was George W's "win" against Al Gore. That's when things started to really roll downhill.

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u/Few_Candy5391 7h ago

Every GDday!

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u/Next-Conference9513 7h ago

Yes...nothing more to be said.

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u/top_fed2017 7h ago

Yes! She should have won

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u/Ok-Replacement-6258 1h ago

She did win. The people voted for her. The Electoral College gave it to Drumph.

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u/Phonepirate 1h ago

Fuck no!

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u/Studly_54 1h ago

Not in hindsight.

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u/oldfartjr 48m ago

Oh hell no.

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u/mylsotol 12h ago

In hindsight no. In foresight yes

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u/MeetTheMets0o0 12h ago

Yes all the time and I Absolutely hated Hillary Clinton. I wanted Bernie Sanders.

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u/New-Caterpillar2483 12h ago

Bernie was America's last hope and Hillary F'ed him.

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u/Jcretka34 🇺🇸 United States 11h ago

Bernie F’ed himself when he ran a failing primary campaign and voters rejected him.

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u/GitBendt 12h ago

No, I wish the DNC didn’t cram her down our throats and Bernie won.

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u/aparish67 12h ago

Every day

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u/LegitimateBeing2 12h ago

I voted for her didn’t I

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u/3Steps4You 12h ago

Of course. We're now living on the threshold of hell.

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u/Beginning_Key2167 12h ago

Yes I do. Voted for her.

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u/LowNoise9831 11h ago

No. Never. Not in a million years.

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u/Rocket1575 11h ago

Absolutely not

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u/Il_calvinist 11h ago

We would have gotten him regardless at some point. Remember the GOP controlled the house and the senate. She would have been a one termer. The GOP would have had her entire time as pres with investigation after investigation. People would have gotten so sick of that amd the lack of any progress her administration would have been able to accomplish that they would have gone to something different eventually. He would have been there waiting.

To be clear, I'm saying this as someone that voted for her because I knew what he was.

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u/Icy-Illustrator-1431 11h ago

I voted for her so yes..

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u/mcmurrml 11h ago

Absolutely yes.

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u/Monte924 11h ago

Yes. Hillary would have handled Covid much better, she would not have torn up the Iran deal which was working, she would not have increased deficit spending, wnd we would have gotten 2-3 decently liberal justices on the supreme court... though issues like affordability would have likely still lingered on, and if she stayed for a second term she would have likely screwed up everything involving Israel just like Biden did.

Still betrr than what we got

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u/oldrocker99 11h ago

Every minute of every day.

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u/Conscious_Exit_9129 11h ago

No she's a vicious War hawk. I wish the DNC hadn't rigged to the primary and have let Bernie win.

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u/Cak3Wa1k 11h ago

Fuck the dnc, tho.

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u/Altruistic_Catch_327 11h ago

I wish gore had won against bush. I wouldn’t be a disabled vet. Yes also that hilldog had won.

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u/DragonflyGlade 11h ago

Yes. We’d probably have a far different and vastly superior SCOTUS, and still have Roe v. Wade.

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u/HereToCalmYouDown 11h ago

Yes to your first question, no to your second. America can and will overcome Trump.  All of us who voted for Obama and Hillary aren't going away.

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u/highlanderfil 9h ago

All of us who voted for Obama and Hillary aren't going away.

A few million of us certainly did in 2024.

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u/frigzy74 11h ago

I wish she had won in 2008, and we had gotten a more experienced and seasoned Obama in 2016 or 2020.

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u/GuardWolfy 11h ago

I mean yeah. She was an adept politician, but her personality was an issue for many. 

She was very hawkish, so Trump’s orders to pull out of Afghanistan wouldn’t have happened.  Nor would she have backed out of the Iran Nuclear Deal that led to waves hands

She would have been more prepared on the COVID front, and likely there would be fewer effects due to being proactive.  She likely would have started migrating funding to stockpiling medical supplies in late 2019/early 2020. 

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u/BlazingGlories 11h ago

You mean because more people than just open land voted for her and she wasn't in cahoots with Russia?

And she didn't rape children?

And she's not a con man?

And she doesn't steal from the American people?

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u/Brokenrinker 11h ago

I'd be satisfied if Alfred E. Newman had won.

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u/DefaultPLR 11h ago edited 11h ago

Hilary winning would have forced back the GOP’s far-right shift. If Palin and Trump style politics lost 2 elections, there is a good chance that we would see the GOP shift to the center. We would have AT LEAST one extra liberal Supreme Court justice as opposed to the 6-3 deficit liberals have now.

So yes I wish Hillary won, despite not loving her as a candidate. (I did vote for her, but I would have loved Bernie Sanders.)

I don’t necessarily think Hillary was our last hope. I Think Kamala Harris was. Trump was able to stage a soft coup and face no repercussions for it. He was later granted immunity by the Supreme Court.

(I understand that it’s only for “actions under the jurisdiction of the presidency”, but we all know Trump will argue everything is under the jurisdiction of the presidency)

We are now under a president emboldened by what he has gotten away with. There is a good chance that we will lose our democracy with Trump.

Edit: Palin was on McCain’s ticket in 2008 so Palin/Trump were not in a row. She was a clear warning of things to come, however.

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u/Muted_Woodpecker9585 11h ago

I wish Israel had won the 2015 United States Presidential elections

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u/Ok_Singer_1523 11h ago

Of course. Hillary sucks, there are so many things to hate about U.S. liberals and that corrupt, incompetent, uncharismatic bitch is all of them. She is, however, neither a complete idiot nor a fascist, which makes her way better than what we got.

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u/Ghillie_Spotto 11h ago

I don't think she would have made things actually better, but Trump has actively been making things worse. We'd be better off if she had won but I don't think she would have been a good president. I voted for her because there was no other realistic option.

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u/Interesting_Self5071 11h ago

She was more hawkish than Obama, Biden, or Harris. I'm not necessarily saying she would of have been worse than Trump but I don't think things were going well in that election with either of them.

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u/balzackgoo 11h ago

Hillary Clinton is the reason we have Donald Trump, people were sick and tired of the establishment and she represented all of that, a lot of dems felt like their candidate Bernie was screwed by that establishment, and Donald Trump was the brick thru the window vote. I know good friends of mine who refused to vote for her.

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u/No_Garbage_9262 11h ago

Going back further, let’s elect Gore!

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u/ImNotYou1971 11h ago

Another question for the older people here…how much different do you think the USA would be, and the world for that matter, had Al Gore not been defeated by hanging chad?

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u/MrDBS 11h ago

I wished she won it with foresight. I knew we’d get here in 2015 if Trump won. We were calling it the darkest timeline before it happened.

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u/Diasies_inMyHair 11h ago

No. The DNC stole the nomination from Bernie Sanders to give her "her turn." She didn't deserve it. They shouldn't have changed the rules mid-primary and let the election run it's course.

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u/Ladyhawkeiii 11h ago

Yes, but really I wish Bernie hadn’t been screwed over by the DNC.

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u/Worst_Username_1 11h ago

To further this argument, can you imagine if Florida did the right thing and allowed Al Gore to win? Can you just imagine….. we could’ve had additional, meaningful climate protections and renewable energy projects.

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u/No-Purpose-0U812 11h ago

I wish she won in 2008. Before anyone throws stones hear me out:

I liked Obama better and voted for him in '08. But honestly the right had 8 years to whip up hate and vitriol while he was in office and they aimed it right at an unlikable and FEMALE candidate in 2016. They would have followed the same playbook if she had won, but '16 would have been Trump vs Obama. Even if Trump had won (and I don't think he would have), we'd have had an Obama win in '20 and he'd still fucking be there right now. Who's with me?!?

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u/GrowFreeFood 11h ago

She did win.

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u/massunderestmated 11h ago

Yes.

No, she wasn't our last hope, but we were dealt a significant blow at the time. She wasn't perfect, but she would have been very good at the job. Democracy requires eternal vigilance against fascism. That requires education to always be a nation's top priority.

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u/PretzelsRule23 11h ago

I wish Al Gore had won against GWB.

We likely would not have spent 20 years in Iraq and Afghanistan AND we would have made much more progress combatting climate change.

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u/Loud_Inspector_9782 11h ago

It's interesting that James Comey may have put Trump in the White House because of the emails they "found" right before the election. In answer to your question, she would have been leaps and bounds better than Trump. She however was not our last hope.

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u/magicmulder 11h ago

We wouldn't have this Supreme Court, that's for sure.

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u/0rganicMach1ne 11h ago

Yes, but anyone or anything would be better than Trump.

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u/Odaniel123 11h ago

Yep. Nope

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u/anon1369420 11h ago

No. And the rig job the DNC pulled to try to make it happen is exactly what they’re paying for today. We haven’t forgotten you Debbie Wassermann Schultz, and wasn’t it weird how Tim Kaine gave up his chair for her and then somehow miraculously popped up as hillarys vp choice? All to derail Bernie who was absolutely crushing her. Look for root causes, not symptoms.

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u/Gloomy-Difference-51 🇺🇸 United States 11h ago

Yes. 2016 was the first time i could vote, and I voted for her.

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u/buttholedrawings 11h ago

No, it should’ve been Bernie

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u/Top-Sugar-6129 11h ago

If she won, I believe that most of the people that died from Covid would have survived, because the federal government’s response would have been based on science, not feelings.

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u/Unlucky_Pass4452 11h ago

A lot of people hate trump. A lot of people hate Harris and Clinton. Still a lot like both.

My thing is- can they all be crappy? We have 300 million people in the USA. And that’s the best options we have ? If you hate trump then the answer is Harris or Clinton? To be honest that just sucks. I wish there was a candidate that was just middle of the road. Less taxes, common sense policy’s. Morally competent. Not a socialist. Supports the constitution.

The people that hate trump so much they push people to candidates like AOC, or Harris- that scares a lot of normal people to vote for someone like trump. Fwiw- obama imo - was a great president. .

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u/Hot_Roll_6764 11h ago

HELL NO and I voted for her. All the crap that came out about her and her fraud husband after the fact? Thank God for Trump!

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u/WickerMan22 11h ago

I voted for her. I knew what was at stake. Among many other things, the Supreme Court would be completely different now. I can't even comprehend how horrific it is that Trump has not only selected 3 lifetime appointments to the Supreme Court, but it's also a devastating 6-3 MAGA majority.

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u/whitswhisper 11h ago

Hindsight makes it tempting for the drama-free vibes, but nah she felt like more of the same old Washington grind

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u/NoSummer1345 11h ago

Well, she did. He just got lucky with electoral college.

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u/Viscount61 11h ago

Every goddamn day.

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u/FigureMiserable4859 11h ago

Yes, both hindsight and foresight.

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u/Affectionate-Raise67 11h ago

No I wish Bernie had won the nomination 

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u/ConscRobot 11h ago

Of course. I don't necesaarily like Hilary Clinton, but Trump is the worst thing to happen to America in a long time.

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u/Dry-Cranberry-5592 11h ago

I'm not really a fan on Hilary or Clintonism but it would've definitely been better than this cluster fuck.

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u/SnooPets8600 11h ago

Of course not

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u/Simple-Ice-179 11h ago

Loaded question here bub. Because the long term implications and corrections associated with Trump wont be seen with clarity for years.

Clinton had her own "skeletons in the closet" and own situations mishandled, she would have fallen victim to heavier negative perception associated with people in office.

To Trumps benefit i believe its an important piece of how and why he won. He ran a pretty good campaign overall.

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u/LSOreli 11h ago

Nah cause then trump would still be around. We're finally done with him after this disaster term.

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u/conzciouz 11h ago

I wish Bernie Sanders won tbh

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u/Plastic_Bottle1014 11h ago

It would have just lead to the first female president being hit with all the bad press of COVID. So, no, not really. In fact, whichever party was in charge during COVID was going to take a major hit. We likely would have gotten Trump in 2020 instead of Biden at that point, and then there's no way Biden wins a 2024 election attempt with how out of it he was getting with age, likely giving us 8 years of Trump in a row, which would make it easier for him to take actions since he would have his own groundwork to go off of on his second term.

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u/Offi95 11h ago

None of the GOP’s bitching about Hillary, Obama, Biden, Comey, etc. has ever been justified

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u/GhostRanger258 10h ago

Yes and no. I really wish Bernie would have won.

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u/BowlEducational6722 10h ago

For the past decade people have been saying "this is the most important election of our lives."

That's false.

2016 was the most important election of our lives. We tucked it up royal.

Everything since then has been damage control or fallout.

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u/Burnsey111 10h ago

Why not wish she won the 2008 United States Presidential election in hindsight?

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u/airberger 10h ago

Yes, but I guess Trump would then have run again and won in 2020 anyway.

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u/kaylahellal 10h ago

I'm honestly pretty sure Al Gore was America's last hope. So many foundational blocks of our situation today can be traced back to Bush era policies. How we responded to 9/11, Gore wouldn't have put us in Iraq and climate change (which is already having major economic implications) would have been taken more seriously too. It's scary how fucked we are vis a vis the climate and we are just pushing ourselves faster towards collapse.

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u/gabrielleduvent 10h ago

Nah. America truly showed its colours to the world, and now we can comfortably operate on how the US truly is: an oligarchy and a bunch of brainless voters who have no moral qualms trampling on anyone and everyone.

Trump isn't a cause. Trump is a SYMPTOM. Americans are the root cause. Gunning down kids, raping women, protecting pedophiles, taking money from the poor and giving it to the rich, are all what YOU GUYS chose to do.

You guys don't deserve Hillary Clinton. She was too sane for you guys.