Post-Election Thoughts

[samhain]

(11-09-2016, 11:17 AM)CKwi88 Wrote: After my feelings of horror, I am absolutely fascinated by the results. You always hear about "who is going to carry the woman vote, the Latinos, the African Americans" Trump gave a big middle finger to the system and said to heck with it, I'm going after the whites. And it worked.

My first thought is that I hope our current SCOTUS justices hold on for as long as possible. I'm not too concerned with Trump doing irreparable harm in the next 4 years. The damage that a generation of an overwhelmingly conservative SCOTUS is much more worrisome for me.

SCOTUS is never a sure thing.  Republican presidents have nominated judges that turned out to be a hell of a lot more liberal that expected on more than one occasion.  There's no telling how they will act when they're in.