The grumbles of an anonymous 42-year-old "politics reporter," here explaining why he is still an undecided voter.
And then I also obviously struggle with Donald Trump. The things I like about him are: I believe that sometimes you just have to blow shit up to build it again, and I think that a Trump presidency would do that. But just when I sort of get there with him, like, Ohhhhhhkayyyy, he says or does something and I'm like, "No, I can't!" Like saying, "What do you have to lose?" to African-Americans. Like, WHAT? What?I think I would just have to sort of give in to my chaos theory of Trump and just hope that he surrounds himself with the right people enough that it's not a total disaster? Or Hillary would have to do a really convincing and honest come-to-Jesus with the media. A real press conference.
So the choices are between Donald Trump, who says insane things and will "blow shit up" and who has never, ever in this campaign surrounded himself with "the right people," unless you count an increasingly tight embrace of conspiracy theorists and petty internet racists to be "the right people," but who will any day now maybe reverse his entire worldview and instead start hanging out with and taking the advice of the Serious Republicans in the world ...
... or Hillary Clinton, who could best this litany of horrors if and only if she gives our hero a press conference that he personally deems correctly press-conferencey. It's between that or blowin' shit up time.
I cover this stuff every day. So for me, four years of Trump, selfishly, sounds a lot more enticing, just because it's going to be a dumpster fire. And a Clinton administration would be more of what we're seeing now, which is carefully orchestrated speeches, behind-the-scenes Wealthy McWealthysons going in and out of the White House, and really horrible transparency with the press.