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Yes, I would have but in a slightly different way. I am going to adapt an analogy somebody- I think O'Malley? - used before:  [b]Hillary is a sniper with a gun; Trump is a monkey with a gun.[/b] With Hillary I would have been worried about some of her poor judgment but I do agree with [b]her national policies as outlined[/b]-which in any case would have had no chance at all with GOP house to the point of making her Presidency useless and possibly even harmful to the long term health of the party.
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I am not really too worried about Trump as a "monkey with a gun". The guy is not a dumb person. What concerns me more is that he is a "disrupter" - something that is needed - but I am not sure if his process of disruption is likely to lead to unintended consequences.

As for Hillary and "her national policies", I had zero confidence that she would adhere to any of those policies. She is the ultimate opportunist and lacks any fundamental convictions because for her everything is a matter of expediency which is why we have seen her change her mind repeatedly over the years. [/quote]

OP, not PP.  I'm going to leave the Clinton stuff alone, because I think it's a distraction at this point.

But I think the "disrupter" issue is even more frightening and speaks to the silly way in which that concept has been idealized.  When the concept was introduced, it was as a way of explaining certain technologies/business models that had taken ahold by fundamentally changing the landscape of how people did things.  The end goal wasn't disruption, it was whatever the new widget was trying to do.  The disruption was simply the effect.  People seem to have elected Trump without any end goal in mind simply to have him shake things up.  Maybe because I'm a physicist who's studied entropy, but this seems ludicrous to me.  It's pretty much a fundamental tenet of the universe that it's insufficient to simply blow up a crumbling building and hope when the pieces land they form the Taj Mahal.  You will instead end up with no shelter at all.[/quote]

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