I think it is happening to the Democratic base, they are just an election cycle or so behind. My guess is that in either 4 or 8 years we will see a highly organized and unified Republican Party pitted against a Democratic Party that is in disarray, unsuccessfully fending off attacks from its own fringes. I don't know the future or anything, but that wouldn't surprise me.
I feel like I have the opposite view of Clinton to most people here. I don't think she is a very good candidate (too polarizing and unlikeable, not popular enough among independents) and don't actually think she'd make an especially good president, for the same reasons. I think in a head-to-head matchup against Rubio or Kasich, she is in big trouble -- notwithstanding any head-to-head polls, which are irrelevant this far out.
Her BEST hope to me is that the GOP nominates a candidate who is so flawed that they literally cannot win. Cruz and Trump are two such candidates, but short of one of those guys winning (and it now appears Trump is going to oblige her) I don't see how she gets into the White House.
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