Oftentimes I wonder how much better off America might’ve been to have elected Mitt Romney in 2012. Not that I’m particularly a Romney fan—the man’s a milquetoast finger in the wind, if a competent one, and would probably have made an underwhelming president. The underlying issues of globalization and financialization hollowing out the national interior would have kept on simmering, and still come to a boil eventually.
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