I'd be a bit more understanding of the argument if someone could explain how it might be possible for a conservative to win in 2020 after Hillary wins next month.
I could be wrong, but I seem to remember people asking the same question after Jimmy Carter a) won in 1976, and b) unfurled his
real colours early and often. The answer to
that question was, of course, Ronald Reagan in 1980.
I grant you that we may never get a Republican candidate
quite like Mr. Reagan in 2020, but if we
must deal with
President Hilarious Rodent Clinton for four years, she's just liable to piss off enough in
both major parties (reality check:
even Democrats are getting more and more discomfited by her now) to make it
very possible for a rightward candidate to
win in 2020. Or, barring a solid rightward candidate (let's say, the best the GOP can do in 2020 is to hoist up another Bob Dolt
1996 type on today's terms), maybe another Republican Congressional sweep a la 1994---maybe in 2020, maybe two years
sooner. (With the hope, of course, that next time they won't be as fast to sell out their revolution, actual or alleged, as Newtie
and the Blowfish were . . . )
I'm still voting for None of These Candidates next month on the presidential line, and maybe a few others as well. But it's not
impossible for a President Hilarious Rodent Clinton to provoke another kind of rightward revival in 2020.