Whether Clinton or Trump Wins, the Country Is in for a Massive Post-Election Hangover...By Jonah Goldberg

[mystery-ak]

 Whether Clinton or Trump Wins, the Country Is in for a Massive Post-Election Hangover
Either candidates presidency would be dogged by the turmoil currently roiling the election.
By Jonah Goldberg — October 19, 2016

Sometimes you can’t just plan for the ball; you have to plan for the hangover, too. No matter how 2016 ends, there will be a headache that haunts the country for years to come.

Let’s start with the most obvious but less likely scenario: Donald Trump wins the presidency in perhaps the biggest black swan event in the history of American politics. Whether you think Trump’s presidency would be an unfolding disaster of biblical proportions (“The Potomac! It’s turned to blood!”), or the unfolding of a biblical prophecy to save America (“The Winning! So. Much. Winning!”), or something in between, no one can deny the enormous change it would represent, and the hostility and fear it would likely elicit from various institutions and constituencies, particularly the news media, but also Hollywood, higher education, our NATO allies, unions, left-wing activists, and perhaps even Wall Street, the Pentagon, and much of the federal bureaucracy.

Fortunately, Donald Trump has the Lincolnesque qualities of political subtlety, magnanimity, and foresight to quell any such misgivings.

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http://www.nationalreview.com/node/441184/print

[sinkspur]

As to Trump's media empire, he has neither the money nor talent to staff such a network.  Anger can be stoked for only so long.  And a media effort built on resentment and appealing to the pissed off will turn off 80% of the rest of us. 

Most Americans will be so sick of Trump after this election any such effort to keep his populist message going will be a collosall failure.

[Jazzhead]

Trump never misses an opportunity to humiliate those who would try to save him from himself.

The man's one heaping bowl o' crazy.   

[Wingnut]

The next four years are going to make the Carter malaise years look like a laugh riot.

[Oceander]

The next four years are going to make the Carter malaise years look like a laugh riot.

Indeed.

[r9etb]

From the article:

The allegations of pay-for-play between her foundation and the State Department, her speeches to Wall Street, the animosity of some of her closest advisers for Catholics: All of these things will have a long half-life. As will her manifest lies about the use of her private server.

More corrosive is the fact that the e-mail and other things have revealed that she's got an entire machine, the sole purpose of which is to promulgate and protect her from her habitual lying.  She has people in her inner circle who have apparently sold their very souls to protect her, and a network of media accomplices whose shading of the truth and outright dishonesty have kept her afloat.

But here's the thing: no matter what, Hillary's lies have become known.  In today's media environment, there's no way to keep those things secret. 

And regular people know this.  They know she's completely untrustworthy, and they know you can't trust anything the media say about her, and they know that if you wait long enough this latest lie is going to be exposed.

Even going in, she'll be the least trusted president since Nixon, and probably less trusted than he was, and that will affect everything she does or tries to do. 

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

I love Jonah Goldberg, he's usually spot-on too.