One week ago today, the national media of the United States, along with its DNC surrogates and supporters, were claiming they had a clear path to the Presidency, the Senate, potentially the House of Representatives, and that Trump would be the catalyst which would ignite a civil war within the Republican Party.
As the country stands today, November 15th 2016, the current political landscape reads : Donald Trump shockingly won the presidency by eliminating the Democrat's self described firewall and winning the traditionally deep blue rust belt states of Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, and always pivotal Ohio, along with crucial toss ups North Carolina and Florida. 32 Governorships belong to the GOP, with 25 states controlling all houses of state level government. The GOP holds 52 Senate seats. This may seem fairly even, until the 2018 elections are examined, in which 10 Senate seats held by Democrats will be on the ballot. The GOP has 40 more seats than the Democrats in the House of Representatives. True, it lost 9 seats this election cycle. However, since the 2006 wave of Democrats elected to the House, they have lost a net 61 seats. This is with a President leaving with an approval rating of above 50%, traditionally high for 2nd term Presidents.
12 years ago I lamented the massive loss Democrats had suffered in 2004. I won't be doing so this year. The coalition they have built and tried to maintain is not only untenable, but unethical. Creating as many subgroups of an electorate as possible, and ascribing them some form of aggrieved status by hyphenating their status as an American is plainly un-American. Many left wing pundits are currently investing in large amounts of halls cough drops because they have screamed about the racial animus that cost them this election. That is not why they lost (youtube Michael Moore Morning Joe Trump if you'd like a further explanation). Democrats lost because their party now reflects their electoral map. Over catering to boutique cultural issues like bathroom equality (thats a thing now) and climate change that appeal to coastal liberals and trust fund babies has not only eroded their support from once loyal middle Americans, but their basic understanding of them. I'm willing to bet most rust belt Democrats would gladly get on board with those issues as secondary causes if the Democrats bothered to notice that all the policies they promised would help every day Americans were actually harming them. But they didn't. Instead liberal elites went on MSNBC and Mother Jones and doubled down on those policies to their own political deaths, ignoring they very people they claimed to help. Liberal authors have since penned articles claiming middle America needs to leave its shell and embrace them, not the other way around. That's right, because working people from Dayton, Ohio really need to reach out to the upper west side of Manhattan and the tenderloin district of San Francisco. Good luck with that.
So, if I am not lamenting the Democratic hemorrhaging influence and political power, why am I offering a eulogy one might ask? The answer is : it won't do them any good. In an attempt to study the source of their beyond hysterical reaction to the election, I was even more shocked by their internet and echo chamber fueled rage. Bernie Sanders' twitter feed is downright appalling. After lamenting he felt humiliated that the white working class of which he is a part needs to be reached out to, his twitter followers howled at his racism and yes, privilege. Rosa Clemente (former Green Party candidate) excoriated him, claiming most working class weren't whites (I guess she conducted some internal polling). Bill Maher asked what else did he and people like him have to do "chop my dick off and admit my privilege?" His guest from MTV gave him the death stare and retort "Oh, so you're saying we need to cater to white men now?" to which he had to backtrack. His point was merely (if I may, Bill) you don't have to demonize them either. Regardless of their feeble self defense, the evidence is now obvious. I was wrong, there is racial animus in this country, and it's directed squarely at men who's skin pigmentation is of a lighter variety and doesn't dare tow the left's ultimatum of self imposed guilt. How dare these troglodytes not cater to the new age liberal banner while their economic livelihoods are threatened. If Democrats no longer want these votes, I suppose that is their prerogative and strategy, but I don't see how they're going to win any foreseeable elections either. As a result, the liberal self-cannibalization has begun. Chuck Schumer's Senate office I hear was just cleared of protestors demanding he step down as Senate minority leader. Apparently New York City liberals are now too far gone from the liberal cause. I wonder how long until Beverly Hills needs to check some privilege.
That takes us back to the Democrat's massive, and very necessary failure. One cannot create hyphenated, aggrieved groups without an "aggriever" so to speak. Middle America is that bogeyman. When one says middle America, one tends to think of you know, ignorant, boring, unattractive flyover country, which is populated primarily with white folks who prefer Orlando over Oslo. That territory just went GOP. Good luck getting it back DNC. You have created a self consuming cauldron of self perceived oppression, and your ship is now rudderless in 9 weeks. Bon Voyage.
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