Five years ago, I did a post in which I mused about the impacts of a hypothetical Mitt Romney victory over Obama in 2012. There would have been some short-term pain, to be sure, but that had to be balanced against having Romney as president instead of Trump between 2017 and 2020. At the time, it was a fairly close question for me. What about today?
Today, there can be no doubt; the nation would have been far better off with Romney as president through 2020. The GOP would have remained sane. The reactionaries would have been under control. There would have been no January 6, no threats of authoritarian rule, and no columns about the imminent death of liberal democracy in America.
You would take that in a minute, wouldn’t you?