If I had to vote for either Trump or Clinton this year (and I don’t, so I won’t), I’d choose Trump.
Why? For the same reason so many others are choosing Trump, and why so many chose Obama in 2008: to punish the opposition.
Voting for Hillary would reward not only a scheming, lying, carelessly corrupt crony-insider — and probably the worst Secretary of State in U.S. History, and not just because of her cavalier approach to security — but also the disaster that is the Obama administration.
Mrs. Clinton has been running for an “Obama third term” for quite a while, and almost nothing the administration has done has been done right.
Worse yet, instead of racial healing, Obama and the Democrats have brought further racial disharmony.
And the level of sanctimonious blather from Obama’s partisans — if ever a group of ideologues deserved a thrashing . . . !
So punishment is in order.
Think of it as democracy in action.
I am sure we will come to regret a Trump presidency. The likelihood that the huckster will transcend his bizarre and demagogic campaign seems low in the extreme.
But I won’t blame him for the horrors to follow. I won’t blame his supporters.
I’ll blame the Democrats, who set the bar so low, who set up the environment where an authoritarian outsider could take the helm.
But, as long as I am not imprisoned or shot, I will try to laugh. This could be quite a ride.
Wirkman Comment 
I’ve wondered about the charge that Obama made race relations worse. As far as I can tell, race relations got worse -despite- Obama, not because of him. He’s always taken a very conciliatory tone on the matter – I’ve never seen him jump into the fray – and he’s even gone so far as to chastise rabble rousers like Jimmy Carter and Ta-Nehisi Coates.
Yeah, his policies and rhetoric have been awful in pretty much every other respect, but as far as race relations go, what would you have had him do differently?
Maybe I will post on this in the next week or so. The problem with Obama on race may not be not so much what he has done, but how he is defined, and what that definition says about Americans.
Obama defended Trayvon Martin as someone who, in other circumstances, could have been his son. An absurd sop to those who wanted to not look into the case, of which even the major networks lied about. Obama repeatedly defended Black Lives Matter — a group that shouted “What do we want? Dead cops! When do we want it? Now!” in the thousands — as having “stats” and good argument on their side. They do not. The stats clearly indicate that, though police culture in general may very well be a problem in America (I think it is), African-Americans tend to get treated better than whites do.
Obama generally pretended that blacks are victims. This was disastrous, for it fanned the flames of the current SJW mania, which de-focuses from individuals and onto groups and “classes” and “races” and “the marginalized.”
I haven’t done the research to back up my suspicion, but the feel I got was that Obama set back good race relations in America by several decades. He did not address the obvious: that white Americans voted for him largely out of hope that we could transcend race. He made sure America did not.
He is a race hustler, though not as bad as Al Sharpton. But because he had more power, he did more harm than the Reverend Al ever could.