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There's no way that in a sane nation this election should be close. It should be fucking walkover. The Republican Party has been so effective at manipulating the system for the past 50 years - gerrymandering, voter suppression, its networks of "not illegal" soft money and PACs, etc - that it has a huge systemic advantage. That advantage is not going away. The Republicans still control the Senate and they've stacked the Supreme Court.
Just imagine that huge advantage but with a charismatic persuasive figurehead who can groom a similar successor. The Republican Party will never lose ever again.
The only good thing about Trump is his badness. He's so fucking useless and unlikable that even with that massive advantage he's not a guaranteed win. His repulsiveness is the only good thing about him because it makes him beatable. The next guy won't be.
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