{"id":4556,"date":"2018-05-03T05:06:52","date_gmt":"2018-05-03T05:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/05\/03\/a-political-counterfactual-conditional-had-hillary-won\/"},"modified":"2018-05-03T05:06:52","modified_gmt":"2018-05-03T05:06:52","slug":"a-political-counterfactual-conditional-had-hillary-won","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/05\/03\/a-political-counterfactual-conditional-had-hillary-won\/","title":{"rendered":"A Political Counterfactual Conditional: Had Hillary Won . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"

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The U.S. embassy would have stayed in Tel Aviv. \u201cStrategic patience\u201d would likely still govern the North Korea dilemma. Fracking would be curtailed. The \u2014 rather than \u201cour\u201d \u2014 miners really would be put out of work. Coal certainly would not have been \u201cbeautiful.\u201d The economy probably would be slogging along at below 2 percent GDP growth.<\/span><\/p>\n

China would be delighted, as would Iran. But most important, there would be no collusion narrative \u2014 neither one concerning a defeated Donald Trump nor another implicating a victorious Hillary Clinton. In triumph, progressives couldn\u2019t 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.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Read it all<\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

. . .  The U.S. embassy would have stayed in Tel Aviv. \u201cStrategic patience\u201d would likely still govern the North Korea dilemma. Fracking would be curtailed. The \u2014 rather than \u201cour\u201d \u2014 miners really would be put out of work. Coal certainly would not have been \u201cbeautiful.\u201d The economy probably would be slogging along at … Continue reading “A Political Counterfactual Conditional: Had Hillary Won . . .”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}