Supporting Clinton

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5. Thank you for this.

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I was a Clinton supporter in 2008, so I know how you feel.

Actually, there is a good analog to what is and has been going on.
A formerly renegade, but newly mainstreamed right wing party won power, not with a true mandate or majority, but with enough seats in the legislature to control the agenda. The brilliant political strategist who was controlling those votes in the legislature stonewalled every measure to the point where it was impossible to get anything done that would help the citizens in what were hard economic times. He also did a fine job of scapegoating all sorts of outsiders and "others" for the country's problems.

Reasonable conservatives finally allowed the leader of the newly acceptable right wing extremist party to ascend to the executive position. After all, how much worse could things get?

The political strategist was Goebbels. I'd name the man who was allowed to become the chief executive, but I'm afraid someone will evoke Godwin's Law.

My analogy does not so much concern the people involved, but rather the political strategy. For me, it's too close for comfort. We need to take back the Congress and retain the presidency.