Hillary Clinton hasn't proposed anything remotely on this scale, and House Republicans (who will almost certainly remain in power) wouldn't go along anyway.
After Trump, our politics seems likely to remain as polarized as before -- but divided less between traditional right and left than between establishment and anti-establishment.
Trump will leave the GOP sharply split between its corporate donor class and its working class. Clinton will preside over a party divided only somewhat less dramatically between its own donor class and an increasingly vocal progressive base.
Which raises an intriguing, if unlikely, scenario. What if Trump's authoritarian populists join with progressive populists to form an anti-establishment third party dedicated to getting big money out of American politics?
The combination could prove an invincible force for wresting back the economy and democracy from the moneyed interests.
It's not impossible. This has been the strangest election year in modern history, partly because such a large swath of Americans -- Republicans, Democrats, and Independents -- have concluded the system is rigged in favor of the privileged and powerful.
Trumpism will continue after Trump loses. The open question is whether anything good can be salvaged from its wreckage.
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