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And y'all have no idea what you've done...but in four years, I think we'll all see what happened. Oh, y'all will still try to blame us for anything and everything that went wrong, but all we'll have to do is to point back at the surplus Bill Clinton left for Bush...and what Bush did with it. Obama is leaving Trump a nation that is in MUCH better shape than it was when he first took over...and watch what Trump does with it.
There is one and only one short-term bright spot in all this: a more resurgent Russia...which means a more nervous China. For all the general warming over the past decade between the two nations, they will never really trust each other to the point of being allies. If we had a skillful diplomatic corps - which we certainly won't, if the past two decades of the GOP are any indication - then this would be a great opportunity to play them off against the other. But who knows - I've been wrong before.
And one last thing: the election of Trump will not stop (much less reverse) the browning of America (and the eventual liberalization that will accompany it). The election of Trump will delay it...but the only way such could be stopped would be to go the route of ethnic cleansing...which I sincerely don't think that the American citizenry as a whole would tolerate. But then, who knows - I've been wrong before.
Still preferable to the demagogue Dumbocrat who's greatest accomplishment was being born with a vagina.