Predictions about the future, Yogi Berra observed, are tough to make.  Retrodiction, with the help of hindsight, is much easier. A Commentary article got me ruminating on an alternative present day — one where Hillary Clinton actually campaigned in Wisconsin and didn't lose the Midwest to a Queens-born parador magnate.  In President Clinton's America, some differences would be immediately notable: a woman occupying the Oval Office; a libidinous man as first gentleman,; gelded progressive activists not marching in the street in black fatigues or pink vulva hats; a stronger ISIS caliphate; an otiose nuclear deal still in place with Iran; full coffers at the Clinton Foundation; a new war in the Middle East, possibly with Qatar. That's merely a menu of conjectures.  I'm convinced, however, that one difference between the Trump administration and a Clinton administration redux is certain: the reputation...(Read Full Post)