uhm, aren't it's Donald Trump who end up sticking with the Clintons and basically continue their policies IRL?
While President Donald sit on the Oval Office and took reins on trade and general economic, it was his Presidential advisory team who worked the politics, especially FOREIGN politics, as well as legislation stuffs which President Donald only need to sign then formally.
Did the fact that Hillary Clinton is the Chief of Staff didn't rang you any bell? Or the fact that President Donald is practically consulting most of the non economic stuffs with Bill Clinton?
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Democrats dropped the Clintons like hot Potato and they end up regret their decision heavily, the only Impeached President isn't really that unpopular, and Donald basically run in place of his best friend Bill. Donald 2000 campaign is basically saying "I'll continue every Good Stuff that Clinton had!"
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and the fact that Hillary Clinton is now the head of Reform party...
Yeah the thing is Trump's 2000 success came from
(a) winning over the disenfranchised Clinton supporters who felt betrayed after Gore made the obnoxiously sanctimonious Joe Lieberman his veep following the Clinton resignation in a clear effort to distance himself from Bill
(b) dominating Jeb Bush and pointing out how retrograde his ticket was (seriously, who thought it was a good idea to make Jeb Bush - Dan Quayle 2000 a thing?)
(c) rallying up the Buchananite right with the Naderish left (Trump convincing Nader to drop out and back him was gold) through a mix of heavy progressive social policy and nativism on trade while also focusing on being "good for business". A lot of businesses that lost money on trade policy were pretty happy when the government picked up the tab on the cost of insuring their employees.
Trump was pretty smooth in co-opting Hillary Clinton as his first chief of staff after Rudy beat her in NY for Senate. Trump pulling her in after Rudy was cross nominated by the GOP and RP against her in that Senate race was a genius gambit. Having been Chief of Staff, UN Ambassador, New York Mayor, and head of the RfNC, I think things are looking good for her come 2020.
Plus, I think it's absolutely hilarious that we have Senator Bill Clinton (Rf-AR) as Deputy President Pro Tempore right now.