Originally Posted by
nsacpi
Policy is not really what I had in mind when I said I hoped the results of recent elections would act as a wakeup call. I was referring mostly to the quality of the candidates coming out of the primary process. This process gave us Trump in 2016 over a large field, any one of whom would have represented an improvement imo. Similarly, the nomination of Moore in Alabama. And going further back, I can think of Senate candidates in Indiana and Delaware, chosen over better alternatives, who were essentially unelectable.