What the 2016 election has demonstrated in spades is that the Republican party has no values or principles. It really is as simple as that. Donald Trump was nominated by that party on a platform that they disagree with, and still the majority of the leadership (and followership) still accepts him. There is a HUGE slice of the middle of America ripe for a candidate with real values and sensible plans, but that candidate will be destroyed by the party Apparatchiks.

A well reasoned argument is like a diamond: impervious to corruption and crystal clear - and infinitely rarer.

Here, as elsewhere, people are outraged at what feels like a rigged game -- an economy that won't respond, a democracy that won't listen, and a financial sector that holds all the cards. - Robert Reich