What was the worst you expected from a Hillary Presidency?

In My Humble Opinion
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With Trump, I fully expected to have resignations, twitter rants, saber rattling for no purpose whatsoever with nuclear powers, corruption, Russia intrigue, anti-science, racism, and a base level of incompetence… but I wasn’t expecting so much, so fast, with so many ramifications and victims ranging from John McCain to ESPN personalities to the NFL.

And I think that most people, even those that voted for Trump, expected some of the above to happen.

But, really, what was the worst you expected from a Hillary Presidency? While there were millions who were enthusiastic supporters, many also held their nose as they cast their ballots for HRC, and of course, there were 70 million who voted against her.

Me, the worst I expected was a continuation of the idiotic GOP-lead gridlock which plagued Obama. Perhaps a higher tendency to use the military than BHO, I would not have been surprised at a war under Hillary… which is a damned depressing sentence to write, regardless of who is President, but anyway… but yes, I expected “Hillary’s War”.

More drifting, with the income gap growing ever greater, and little progress being made on anything because of said gridlock. Perhaps a corruption scandal or two with her aides… Anthony Wiener’s sentencing would be more than a 1-day story if Huma was in the Administration, for example.

But others thought differently, and decided the downside to a Hillary Presidency was worse than the shit show we’re seeing now. So, again, for both supporters and non, what was the worst thing you expected Hillary Clinton to do as President?

(As this seems like an obvious question that has been asked here, apologies if this has been done before.)

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I didn’t mind Hillary’s hawkishness one bit, in fact, that was one of the biggest pros that she had going for her, IMHO.

I didn’t fear much about a Hillary presidency; it was just the gloating or nonstop 4 years of fallacy-spreading and truth-twisting of her supporters that I couldn’t handle. (Not that many Trump voters were any better, of course.)

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I think there was quite a bit of criticism of Obama that was tinged with racism. I suspect that the criticism of HRC would have been more blatantly sexist. In my view, the quality of the national dialog on political issues would have become worse.

Though even in that case, I think Trump has damaged the national dialog far worse, just in a different way.

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Amnesty for all illegals.

That is, I figured she’d try her hand at a lot of stuff I’d despise; but I also figured the Republicans in the House and the Senate would do their best to keep her in check. But I also figured that uses of the pardon power are pretty much the President’s call all the way, and figured there was an excellent chance she’d just shrug 'em on in.

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I was a pretty enthusiastic Clinton supporter. My worst fears were that the Republican resistance would be successful in bottling her up and that she’d get very little done, and would be branded as a mistake and a failure, and lose in 2020 to an establishment Republican conservative.

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I expected not much to happen in domestic programs because of gridlock. The big negative would be possible involvement in a war in the Middle East–which the Republicans would support.

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Had Hillary won, I think she’d have been a decent, but – other than being the first female – unremarkable president. We’d be seeing all the same old obstructionism and partisanship ad infinitum – mediocrity in government for the rest of all our lives, probably.

Trump, on the other hand, has taken America to the Rock Bottom that we can now begin climbing out of. The silver lining to Trump’s win is that it has likely inspired a whole new generation of People Who Give A Shit, and we may actually be better off for it a couple decades down the road.

(This is me trying really hard to find a silver lining.)

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(bolding mine)

Pretty much this. Just the fact that she would hold the office would be the worst possible thing I could imagine.

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Worst case scenario was Hillary winning resulting in conservatives becoming energized, seeing congress on the federal level as well as endless state and local elections moving to the right. All while Hillary was totally impotent and ineffective as president due to the GOP congress.

Basically she’d serve as an ineffective, useless president while politics all over the state and local level moved right.

One of the few good things about Trump winning is the opposite is now happening. The left is energized, pushing state and local (and eventually federal) elections to the left.

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Nixonian paranoia and the inability to own her mistakes.

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I feared a bigger and bigger government, and more and more regulations, choking the life out of the economy. Plus rampant illegal immigration. And having to see her face on the news every damn day.

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Boredom plus nonstop whiny bitching from the right wing.

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More pay for play regarding the Clinton Foundation and access to Hillary.

The lingering suspicion Bill is using powers he no longer holds. It would be very difficult for a former President to only observe.

Serious attacks on gun rights. Attacks on law enforcement. (AG Sessions has already reduced the Civil Rights law suits against police depts). Hillary would have ramped them up.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/amp/ag-sessions-says-trump-administration-pull-back-police-department-civil-n726826

The most terrifying…
Hillary’s pledge to fling open the doors to ten thousand refugee’s. In spite of all the terror attacks in France & England.

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Yeah, she’d probably succumb to the ludicrous paranoiac fantasy that shadowy forces were out to get her. I mean, please!

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World War Three. She’s a hawk.

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The worst I expected from a Hillary presidency is that it would have dealt a very serious blow against feminism. It sends the message to girls that you, too, can be whatever you want, provided you marry the right man. I’d much rather see the first female President be someone who got there all on her own.

As far as political policy goes, probably the worst would have been a full-out, boots-on-the-ground mass-deployment war with Syria, or maybe North Korea (though if the latter had happened, it probably would have been due to factors outside of the President’s control-- There’s a baseline chance of a Kim doing something so irrational and insane, for no discernible reason, that it made war unavoidable)

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Me too. Also, not really a “fear,” but I thought she was the best hope for a restoration of abortion rights, and I feared she might fail at that.

My only hope now is that there is a silent majority to be scared of of complacency, and vote back a Democratic legislature. Pretty soon I’ll be too old for it to be a personal issue, and I don’t have a daughter (I have a son who will probably have a girlfriend someday, though), but I still take the issue very personally because of what it represents.

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Hey! Welcome to the reality of American politics. Nixon got it worse in 1960.

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It is an interesting question-especially the replies.
Trump is shocking and a liar. And his supporters understand him. Even when he lies. They hear the inner truth, which I believe is usually in fact there. The rest of us are hung up on his actual words.
From these replies and my view on Hillary, I am not sure we would have gotten much different response in the country. I think the shock and opposition the left is mounting against Trump would have been the same from the right-including the accusations of lying. Kind of depressing actually but it shouldn’t be too surprising. We had two pretty awful candidates, like many people said those were probably the only two people could have beaten each other, and we shouldn’t be surprised that we get the same outcome from either one.

As for what would be different between the two. Domestically I suspect not much. But internationally a Clinton presidency would have preserved the US leadership in the world. With Trump, no one pays any attention to the US if they can help it. With our military we are hard to ignore completely but no-one is looking to the US for political or moral leadership.

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Three new Supreme Court justices.