Originally Posted by Rochard

In any other election I would say we would have been fine.

If McCain or Romney would have won, I think we would have been fine. The problems we were facing in 2008 and 2012 were the economy, and the only thing that would have fixed it was time. I believe we are moving in the right direction, but this is not a four or eight year problem - it's a ten or twenty year issue. With McCain or Romney in office we would pretty much be in the same place we are now.

With Hillary I see more of the same. Our economy is getting better, unemployment is down, and we aren't getting into any new wars. Great.

With Trump.... It would be one disaster after another. He'll make a single snarky comment ("Nasty Woman", "Bad Hombres") and it will dominate the news for the next week and him and his staff will spend the next week scrambling to control the news cycle. Because he has no political experience at all, it will be a huge uphill task to get anything done. I mean, it's already an uphill task for the President to get anything done but with Trump and his lack of experience it will be ten times worse. Imagine Trump trying to get someone nominated to the Supreme Court - It will be one problem after the other. Then right in the middle of all of this we'll have some kind of lawsuit or issue Trump will be fighting - he is constantly in lawsuits - and that won't help either. Then the moment we have any kind of a crisis, natural disaster, it will be completely fumbled. Trump just doesn't understand how our government works. He seems to think being President is like being the king and it just doesn't work that way.