Honestly, I have to retract my earlier statement. Without the pandemic I would bet on a second Trump term without hesitation, but I don't think anyone can predict how this will turn out. As I wrote earlier, bungled catastrophes tend to work out OK for the incumbent in the good old USA and being a demented racist hasn't stopped anyone from getting a second term yet. So good news for Joe if he makes it. On the other hand, most of those catastrophes have been some mixture of fake and extremely localized and the only thing that didn't happen exclusively on the TV for most people, the Greta Recession, lead to a change of the guard.

I don't think there was anything damning in the content of those speeches. It was the fact that she got so much money for those platitudes that was the problem. You're suppose to deliver what Wall Street wants, and then get paid after leaving office, like Obama did. Clinton didn't seem to understand how corruption works.