I want limited government - both parties are for big government and more (badly thought out) legislation.
My hope is that stalemate will occur preventing the worst excesses of both parties from being realised.

Unfortunately, on the big things they agree. Both are economic populist, anti-trade, anti-immigration… Both are in favour of restrictions on personal freedom - Republicans because they think things are immoral, Democrats because they don’t trust people to choose for themselves. Both want stronger federal government, seem to think that government can do no wrong in their hands and seem happy to turn a blind eye to the abuses of power all around them.

Its a very depressing time for liberals. I don’t see how the Democrats would be any better, except they are now late arrivals to the anti-war position, not that most seem to mean it.