Footnotes to Plato from the foothills of the Superstition Mountains

A Political Counterfactual Conditional: Had Hillary Won . . .

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The U.S. embassy would have stayed in Tel Aviv. “Strategic patience” would likely still govern the North Korea dilemma. Fracking would be curtailed. The — rather than “our” — miners really would be put out of work. Coal certainly would not have been “beautiful.” The economy probably would be slogging along at below 2 percent GDP growth.

China would be delighted, as would Iran. But most important, there would be no collusion narrative — neither one concerning a defeated Donald Trump nor another implicating a victorious Hillary Clinton. In triumph, progressives couldn’t have cared less whether Russians supposedly had tried to help a now irrelevant Trump; and they certainly would have prevented any investigation of the winning Clinton 2016 campaign.

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Add this to the list of Trump's manifold accomplishments: he has forced the Dems and their Deep State operatives to show their true colors. We now know what we are up against.


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