I’m optimistic that Secretary/Senator Clinton will become President Clinton in 2016. I have long predicted 347 Electoral votes for her which leaves an awful lot of votes for Donald Trump.
My question is this — how will the people in the states that vote for Trump justify their vote to themselves? Will we see a total disavowment of the man after November? “Oh no, I didn’t vote for him, I voted for Gary Johnson!” or “Oh no, I stayed home.”
But someone is going to have to vote for him to drag Oklahoma and the Dakotas and Mississippi and Alabama and the other red states into his column? Will those voters be able to say to their children in 2020 and 2024 and 2028 and 2032 that they actually cast a ballot FOR Donald Trump, the closest thing we’ve had to a Mussolini on our shores?
Or will the Donald magically get the 50-60 million or so votes he’ll get in November from a legion of ghosts who forget they voted for him or whose shame will preclude them from admitting it?
If you have a neighbor on the fence (and I don’t know how they could be at this point, ask them if they will admit to voting for the Donald ten years on.