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In good faith, I want to ask all the non-Trump voters, what are you most afraid of with a Trump presidency? 

Maybe I can help alleviate your fears in the comments. 

Again, in good faith.

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My biggest one is that he will be incredibly lazy with his supreme court nomination and will defer to a group like the heritage foundation to install justices who will rule based on politics and not law precedent to give broad sweeping power to the executive branch when it suits a political issue for one side over the other for a multi decade period.

Also may I ask if you think the supreme court since 2016 has been better or worse since previous eras?

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I am a conservative, so I want conservative justices appointed. His record is that he will appoint conservatives, so I expect he will do that. 

I don’t believe conservative justices = more authoritarian rule. I believe conservative justices = more decentralized government.

Thing is the Supreme Court is not supposed to be partisan, it's supposed to be a check on the other branches of government. This has historically been upheld by a norm of appointing high quality judges that strive for impartiality (however unattainable being completely unbiased may be). Trump broke the norm by appointing overtly partisan judges, and will likely do so again this term if the opportunity arises. 

You might like that he's appointing partisan judges now, but by breaking norms and being rewarded with re-election he's setting the precedent that norms don't matter. If the Democrats return to power they might begin to follow that precedent, which you probably won't like. 

That's just one of the reasons why people are worried. Democracy is held together by norms and he has no problem breaking them.

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His denial of climate change will lead to dramatically more carbon emissions over the next 4 years, and if he dismantles NOAA and further defangs the EPA (already cowed by the Chevron ruling and his last term) I expect terrible consequences for Americans in the path of extreme climate events because of this and climate research to be set back significantly. I also expect Trump will undermine global cooperation on climate change at every turn, starting by pulling the US out of the Paris agreement a second time.

To my mind his election essentially locks us into an emissions path where we will have no choice but to attempt to scale SRM sometime later this century as a desperate last gamble which is utterly horrific & dystopian to
me, and leaves me profoundly disappointed with humanity as a whole. 

That’s what makes me really sad about this outcome.

Is Supreme Court the most pressing issue in your mind with him? Or is there something else that keeps you up more at night? 

Like worries you the most.