I would have liked to see the Republican Party tank this election just to torpedo candidates like Trump for the next few years.
Call it the inner pessimist in me, but Murphy's law suggests that if it tanks, the popular take-away isn't going to be that Trump isn't a bad candidate, but that he didn't go far enough.
(apologies if crazy, unrelated all-nighter)
Yeah I dunno... Mitt Romney was out of touch and accidentally alienated large groups of people, and was a fundamentalist Mormon, but at least he was trying to play the game. Trump's actually different... like a third party candidate who got elected.
Like Sanders would have been... Though Sanders was trying to take on the system, defeat it, and fix it. Trump is just ignoring it and, woah, somehow that's almost working.
I don't think it will work, just prompt politicians to further fortify the system against those who don't play ball. I don't see any useful reform coming from it. But yeah, maybe the Right half will fracture for a while. That could be good in a different way, from my Leftish perspective, though I hold a few Right positions... such a false dichotomy, and I don't see the two party system actually breaking from Trump.
Sanders getting money out of politics would have helped a lot, I just didn't think he had any chance of doing that even from office. Looking at other countries clearly demonstrates how unnecessary and terrible our campaign finance laws are... The British government ain't perfect, but it's sure better on that front!
Tom Scott:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egeMAIXYIvI