If the Republican nominee for president is elected in 2016 — even by one vote — America will become an effective one-party state with the GOP controlling the presidency, the House, the Senate and the Supreme Court.
I warn my fellow liberals who casually discuss a challenge to Hillary Clinton from the left, a challenge I oppose, despite my strong agreement with their views and aspirations.
The mortal threat to American liberalism is not in electing a Democratic president we agree with 90 percent of the time, who would nominate Supreme Court justices we agree with 100 percent of the time and would help elect more Democrats to the House and Senate. The mortal threat to American liberalism is in putting the legislative and executive branches of government under the unrestrained power of a Republican Party in the grip of intolerant and extremist factions, and imposing a partisan conservative Republican Supreme Court majority that would set back American justice for a generation.
Clinton is well within the mainstream of progressive thought. She is by far the most electable Democrat. In the unlikely event that Clinton does not run, I would strongly support Secretary of State John Kerry for the Democratic nomination, because he is vastly experienced on foreign and domestic matters, and battle-hardened in the crucible of presidential politics.
America is a 50-50 nation with public support equally divided between the parties. The problem for Democrats is that we lost so many House and Senate seats in the 2010 and 2014 elections, if the Republican presidential nominee wins by even one vote in 2016, the result would be a winner-take-all outcome that would create a one-party state of Republican control in Washington.
http://thehill.com/opinion/brent-budowsky/232571-brent-budowsky-a-gop-one-party-state
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