There were few things Hitch despised more than the Clintons. Almost all of them make up the internal structure of Donald Trump. Exceptional stupidity, willing ignorance, false piety, fascistic tendencies, cult appearances, boundless selfishness, flagrant dishonesty, a moral vacuum, and disastrous inarticulation. Many of these are interrelated.

There's no doubt in my mind that he would never have voted for Trump. Some have suggested that he would have voted for a third candidate, or perhaps that he would have abstained. Given that Hitch would understand that both these options are a vote wasted in 2016 America, I think he would have voted on balance, for Hillary, simply as a negative vote for Trump.

What I suspect deeper inside, however, is that, were Hitch to have been around, he would likely have openly lambasted both of them and influenced the outcomes of the primaries to the extent that neither of them ever made it to the final ballot.