If Hillary wins, we’ll have chosen our leaders for the rest of our lives

Now only the election remains. In the two weeks that are left, we’ll hear more from WikiLeaks, in spite of U.S. government pressure to shut it down in order to protect Hillary. And Trump will release a few more policy ideas, like his welcome plan to reign in K Street lobbyists. But we’re in end game and we can begin to make out the outlines of the election, and beyond that to the kind of government we’ll see in the future.

I don’t know who will win, but let’s say it’s Hillary. In that case we’ll have elected the head of America’s natural governing party. We’ll have chosen our leaders not only for the next four years but for the rest of our lives. It won’t matter if from time to time the Republicans hold one branch of Congress, given the way in which Obama has shown how a Democratic president can rule as an autocrat.

And why will the Democrats keep the White House? Because the Republican Party of the NeverTrumpers, the party of a narrow right-wing ideology, will have died. It had a good run for 160 years but everything has to come to an end, and the GOP is no exception. But it’s not Hillary that will have killed it, nor Trump either. Instead, its last gasp was the Romney debacle of 2012.

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