I think if the Senate goes Democratic the nuclear option is on. The Republican talk about never seating a Clinton nominee on the Supreme Court has to be dealt with, and the way forward is to severely curtail the power of the filibuster. Leaving the Judicial branch broken would be an endless hassle for Clinton's administration. Not just the SC but also there is a huge backlog of federal judge appointments.
With a Liberal Court, we will probably see some decisions to decrease the amount of gerrymandering, but that will take a while. Maybe the House districts will be less Republican-friendly by 2024.
ACA needs some fixes. Private insurers can all decide to abandon a market, so we will need something like Medicare for those folks. There just isn't anyway around it, unless government supplies it. Not necessarily a bad option: These very same private insurance companies already handle all the Medicare claims with 5% overhead instead of the 20% overhead allowed by ACA. It could be 15% cheaper! And these companies all do want the Medicare business and manage to make money on it, so if the want to keep on doing that they would have to also handle the ACA claims.
Immigration needs some fixes. Some people say "They need to follow the procedure and wait their turn." but the special relative program uses up all the "turns" from Mexico every year. So if you have no relatives in the US, you wait forever. That is why people have to sneak in and have an anchor baby: It's the only way to get here.
Restoring the fairness doctrine on broadcasts might go a long way toward fixing the right-wing anti-government hysteria. A little truth along with each Fox and Rush program?
