Great post, Reg.

One might say, the Clintons got what they deserve, or didn't get what they didn't deserve: The White House.

One thing I believe Trump will deliver on is the rebuilding of the infrastructure and the millions of jobs that will provide.

Obama wanted to do it, but Republicans didn't want him to get credit for it. Trumps as President and both houses in control of his party, it's practically a given. Democrats won't fight it because they know the country needs both the new infrastructure and the jobs. Couple that with "rebuilding" the military, the National Debt will spiral upwards, contrary to conservative philosophy. If the Debt does become a deciding issue, however, it's the infrastructure that will continue to rot.

With Pence as head of the transition team, Priebus as Trump's Chief of Staff, Ryan as Speaker of the House--assuming he wins that election-- McConnell as head of the Senate, cabinet members that are currently being discussed: with an eye towards emasculating any attempt Trump might make towards supporting Planned Parenthood, say, or,now, amending Obamacare rather than repealing it in toto, or any other so-called "liberal" act he may lean towards, the establishment is surrounding the President-elect with the very insiders he campaigned against, crowding him into submission.

His ego may rebel against those efforts. The boss who likes to say 'You're fired" may rise up and tell these establishment fixtures, "fuck off."

His problem now is to heal the many wounds he inflicted in order to get elected, returning the country to whatever degree of unity it had before the election.

Since democracy is by definition an arena for exchanging ideas, I'm, in the end, hoping Conservative ideas will hold enough sway over the course of the next four years, to persuade or dissuade, once and for all. In that sense I hope the effort by the entrenched establishment to force Trump to heel will be successful.

Alas, it is the Supreme Court appointments I dread. Yet if we are to truly get a full playing out of the Conservative philosophy of government: being responsible for no more than the military, a domestic police force, and a judiciary that will enforce contracts, then I must say: Bring it on!.......kinda.