"Republicans are going to wish Hillary Clinton won"

[Brittain33]

Sounds right. I wanted Clinton to win, but she was facing blockage in the House and terrible Democratic disenchantment in 2018.

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http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/04/republicans-are-going-to-wish-hillary-clinton-won.html

[Brittain33]

Get me 7 young pro-life justices on the Supreme Court, and you can have control of government back at some point.

If we think the 2016 election is a pyrrhic victory for Republicans, you can't begin to imagine the scale of pyrrhicism in an overturn of Roe v. Wade.

[Brittain33]

     "We want to lose this election for strategic reasons!" is an amazing bit of #Analysis that I had thought would be restricted to Atlas, but alas. Nevermind getting to select a SCOTUS nominee or doing something other than obstinately rejecting every bill for another four years; we really just ought to demoralize our opponents.

I don't think you'll find a soul who would argue that losing in 2012 was good for Republicans, or bad for Democrats, given the consolidation of Obamacare.

I think the case for 2016 is unprovable but strong.

[Brittain33]

     I won't deny that there were downsides to winning in a year when there were deep divisions in the electorate. To go from that to "it would have been better to lose" is a pretty big leap though.

We certainly won't know for sure until Election Day next year. Until then, it really is all speculation.