Inside the GOP plot to undermine Hillary Clinton's presidency

How will Republicans deal with another President Clinton? More scandal-mongering!

The GOP has major plans.
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When you're addicted to something, you often need to hit "rock bottom," a place where the depths of your depravity and misery are so obvious that there is simply no choice but to move on to a different path. If the polls are right and Hillary Clinton becomes president of the United States, one might think that from a national political standpoint, the Republican Party will have hit rock bottom.

It would mean that they lost the popular vote in six of the last seven presidential elections, a truly historic run. With at least 12 years in control of the White House, Democrats will be able to entrench Barack Obama's accomplishments and remake the Supreme Court (and all the other federal courts) for a generation. And meanwhile, the GOP will have discredited itself for some time to come by asking American voters to make Donald Trump the most powerful human being on earth.

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Paul Waldman

Paul Waldman is a senior writer with The American Prospect magazine and a blogger for The Washington Post. His writing has appeared in dozens of newspapers, magazines, and web sites, and he is the author or co-author of four books on media and politics.