I actually voted for Kasich and Rubio as my write in candidates. Smart and competent and I would have been very happy with this team, and glad to see that you agree about Kasich. That said, both are products of the system, as is Hillary; and the polarization that dominated Obama's eight years hurt each of them as an angry electorate wanted a mover and a shaker from outside, warts and all, and that's what they got in Trump.
I've said before that the resist movement is bad for the country. The unwillingness to accept that Hillary got her butt kicked in the electoral college, and looking for any excuse and explanation beyond accepting that she ran a terrible campaign in a year of the outsider, seems terribly short sighted and hurtful to our democratic system. Hanging on to some silly rationale that New Yorkers favored Hillary over Trump by a wide margin, and therefore she deserved to be President, borders on delusional. Yes, she killed it in New York and California and basically the two coasts, but lost everything in between; and the system worked exactly as the founding fathers intended by making sure the few most populated states did not control the outcome of the election.
Trump is a deal making pragmatic doer, and I feel your resist movement and the resist actions of the Dems in Congress are huge mistakes. If the Dems signaled a willingness to sit down and cut deals with Trump instead of opposing him at every opportunity, I think he could be very effective. Clearly, that's not going to happen, which simply strengthens the conservative sway with this President.
