Clinton is a moderate who would extend the progress made by the Obama Admin: an economic recovery that ranks among the best of the developed nations hit by the 2008 financial disaster, reducing the percent of Americans without health insurance to under 10 percent for the first time ever, significant restraints on the financial industry, advances in the response to global warming, taking the banking industry out of the student loan business and using the savings to expand Pell grants, regulating tobacco, shrinking the deficit by a trillion, extending Medicare's solvency by 13 years, enacting higher taxes on the very rich, and on and on. The judges she would nominate would protect minority rights, women's rights, and the public in general from private power.
And Trump? We don't really know because he's such a whack-job, and he seems unable to utter coherent sentences, much less nuanced public policy positions, but it seems like he wants to
slash taxes on the already rich, end our policy of nuclear non-proliferation, start multiple trade wars, and insult anyone who disagrees with him with racial, sexist, juvenile smears.
As far as the Republican agenda goes, we know much more clearly what they support: lower wages, eliminating worker protections, cutting investments in things like education, weaken the social safety net, kick people off health insurance, let China write the rules for the global economy, let Big Oil weaken rules that protect our air and water, let big banks weaken rules that protect families from getting cheated and of course,
cut taxes for the wealthiest Americans to historic lows. Which would explode the deficit, eliminating all the progress made these last 8 years.
There's a choice. It's real, and it's stark. Don't kid yourself.