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« on: August 19, 2017, 07:58:09 AM »

The key would be whether the republicans would continue their strategy of just obstructing absolutely everything, investigating Benghazi and emails constantly and keeping the ninth seat of the supreme court open.

Frankly, I'm not totally convinced that they would.

At this point they would have lost three presidential elections in a row and seen what an obstructionist divisive agenda does to their party (nominating Trump). Had Hillary won there would be many republicans who would desperately want to avoid a repeat of 2016. After 2012 there was some consensus that the GOP needed to reach out to Hispanics and yet the exact opposite happened. After a Trump defeat those voices would grow much louder. It is very realistic that a counter-tea party movement within the party would take place. In such an environment, just obstructing everything doesn't sound nearly as attractive as it used to. I could see the moderate wing and the business wing of the GOP wanting to make deals with Hillary instead of obstructing her endlessly. I could also see the senate actually approving Garland before Hillary even took office. Infact, I think most people were expecting that to happen.

I guess Garland probably would have been approved, and the GOP might have shied away from playing with the debt ceiling, but I don't think there would have been any bipartisan grand bargain with Hillary. Maybe immigration reform would have passed, but that would cause a GOP civil war. Even the GOP establishment viscerally opposes things like tax hikes or a higher minimum wage, and Hillary probably would demand these things in a grand bargain. And the GOP base hates Hillary even more than Obama. I think the GOP would have tried to make sure their candidates appeal more to minorities and maybe they even would have tried immigration reform, but other than that they wouldn't have worked with Hillary.
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