Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, and a bold prediction

[Tommy_Carcetti]

Hillary Clinton's portrait is already in the White House. This is by virtue of her being the First Lady for 8 years, but she has secured herself on the walls of history nonetheless. And even amongst those who were her harsh critics or doubters, it cannot be said that she hasn't earned a history legacy for herself as a First Lady, Senator, Secretary of State and first female Presidential nominee of a major political party (and first woman to earn the highest amount of votes in a Presidential election).

Now, I don't expect Hillary to run again in 2020 for President or any elected office. And absent a deus ex machina in the Electoral College, she won't be sworn in as President in 2017. I think her role now is going to be viewed as an Emeritus level. She'll be the Woman Who Could Have Been President, much like Al Gore was the Man Who Could Have Been President, and that's going to sting considering the mess we're headed for in the next few years. But the fabricated non-scandals that plagued her during her presidential run will fade away, and she'll return to the level of high respect that she's earned. And generations beyond us will read her name when they read about famous women in American history.

As for Donald Trump, I have a bold prediction....

I predict that when Donald Trump is through with this country, and this country is through with Donald Trump (and by the time that occurs and however it occurs, the antipathy between Trump and the American people will be mutual), the taint surrounding him and the utter lack of character he has and will display and the damage he incurs on the country....his portrait will not be on the White House walls. You will see the portrait of President Obama, and it will skip right over the 45th President and right to the 46th President (who unfortunately could possibly be Mike Pence, but that's a bridge we'll have to cross when we come to it). His very name and face will be unspeakable and something we wish to forget, and not celebrate. It will be like the post-Stalin era of the Soviet Union or any other example of a country that desperately desires to not celebrate its deepest shame.

The White House walls will continue to display portraits of Buchanan, Harding, Hoover, Nixon and George W. Bush and any other President in its history whose legacy is mainly that of incompetence, corruption or embarrassment. But it will not have a portrait of Donald Trump. His picture would be a step too far.

But it will have a portrait of Hillary Clinton. And in that, I take a small amount of solace as we approach these dark days.

[radius777]

1. Excellent, Hillary's place in history will go stronger

as the years go by, and Trump destroys the nation.

Hillary is a trailblazer and a pioneer, one of the few women to have the guts to play the game hard, the way a man would, and for that she is/was demonized.

She came from a middle class family and is a self-made person, who got into Ivy League schools, worked hard, and achieved more than any woman before her in history.

As a PoC, and a male, I've always admired Hillary, her ambition, her hustle, her moxy - she reminds me of how hard PoC women often have to work to get anywhere in this world.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

2. Well said. nt