I’ve seen this idea tossed around, even here on Daily Kos. The Guardian quotes a naif:
A 29-year-old female data processor wrote: “As horrific as Donald Trump is, and he is a horrible, racist, misogynist idiot, I don’t think Hillary Clinton is any better. I feel like with Trump, he could at least inspire a revolution, even if it is against him. I prefer chaos to stagnation.”
Well, here’s my take. Some people are privileged enough to advocate for chaos. They may not suffer under a new Supreme Court that will be ushered in by President Trump. They may not know the history of the Taney Court, and its abominable decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford:
The decision proved to be an indirect catalyst for the American Civil War. It was functionally superseded by the Civil Rights Act of 1866 and by the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which gave African Americans full citizenship.
The Supreme Court's decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford is unanimously denounced by scholars. Bernard Schwartz says it, "stands first in any list of the worst Supreme Court decisions—Chief Justice C.E. Hughes called it the Court's greatest self-inflicted wound". Junius P. Rodriguez says it is "universally condemned as the U.S. Supreme Court's worst decision". Konig et Ial. say it was "unquestionably, our court's worst decision ever".
Under Trump, or Cruz, or any of the Rs—we’ll get Taney all over again. I’ve seen bloody revolutions. Lost friends in them. I’m no fan of chaos, or the idea that more repression will somehow cause “the people” to rise up and change all that is wrong with this system—and yes, there is plenty that’s wrong with it.
If you wonder why so many black folks will continue to back a slow steady change, it’s more than likely ‘cause many older folks know that the “black revolutionaries” of the ‘60s and ‘70s are mostly dead or doing life in prison. There has been little or no white left outcry about it. Our churches still burn. Guns are still too ubiquitous. Latinos aren't happy with the deportations under Obama, but know they’ll be even worse under xenophobic fascists. The LBGT community is watching the enactment of extremist vile legislation in North Carolina. Oh yes, and women can kiss our reproductive rights good-bye.
Those people who I have heard or read who have stated they want Hillary to lose, should she be the nominee, are playing with other people’s lives. You want to take responsibility for chaos, pain, suffering and death? I’m not down with it, and neither are the people who are the future of the Democratic Party—given changing demographics—who are mostly people of color and women.