As Dust Settles After Election Day, New York’s Winners and Losers Emerge

 

By Will Bredderman

One week after a political asteroid struck the Earth and became America’s president-elect, the skies have cleared enough that we can see who will reign in the post-apocalyptic new order.

Republicans now stand supreme over the national terrain, dominating both houses of Congress, the Oval Office and, soon, the Supreme Court. The Democrats have been reduced to a tattered band of rebels, struggling for turf even in blue refuges like New York.

Who lost the most in the fires of last Tuesday? And who will become the overlords of the Empire State?  Read on. 

LOSERS:

1. Anthony Weiner

If the direst Democratic predictions for a Trump presidency come true, the history books of the future will have a very special place reserved for Weiner (though probably not the children’s editions). The twisted tale of the once-promising ex-congressman and failed mayoral candidate attained a hideous and stunning final climax 11 days before the election, when the world learned that a probe into the pol’s alleged sexting with a North Carolina minor had led Federal Bureau of Investigation agents to a cache of previously unknown emails connected with Hillary Clinton’s private email server. 

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Source: NY Observer (via The Empire Report)