Hi, Neko. I wondered if you were going to weigh in on this one. I didn't actually say another Democrat would have beaten Trump in a landslide, but I do think most would have beaten him handily. But you're right that the cycle was set up for a GOP win this time. The fact that Trump barely eked one out -- and only by virtue of the Electoral College -- is a testament to how unattractive a candidate he truly was.

I know we don't see it the same way, but from what I've heard from most of the people I know who voted for Trump, it was more about their dislike of Hillary than love for him. Rightly or wrongly (mostly wrongly, IMHO), she came to represent for these people the Washington establishment and decades of Washington establishment corruption. That baggage would have been with her regardless of her opponent. Heck, it even haunted her in the primaries, both in 2016 and in 2008 against Obama -- and that was before Benghazi and the emails.