To play devil's advocate for a moment, what do you think of the current progressive wave rolling over the country in response to the Trump regime's actions? People are mobilizing everywhere, even in deep red states and some of the reddest districts in the country. I just watched a lecture by Richard Wolff about legitimate criticisms of capitalism. He said he'd given a lecture the night before in a room filled with 600-700 people who all paid money to understand this situation better and that would have been virtually unimaginable just 5 years ago. Progressive pockets of citizens are popping up everywhere and even life long Republicans who self-identify as conservative support some of the most progressive policies put forth like universal healthcare and college.
So were they onto something? Where would we be right now if Hillary Clinton were the president instead of Donald Trump? The results of the Obama administration were good in many respects, but in an economic sense, pretty terrible. Would a hypothetical Clinton administration have been a continuation of that?