9 November 2016

Democrats and Hillary bungle election, Trump wins

Democrats intent on making history by putting a woman in the White House nominated Hillary Clinton, her high negatives notwithstanding. She and they then ran an identity politics campaign that confirmed for many Americans that the Democratic Party considers the white working class deplorable bigots who are, and should be, second class Americans.

Once the backbone of the Democratic Party, the white working class, shunned, shamed, and deplored by Hillary Clinton and her political party, turned, in anger and despair, to Donald Trump, a strongman whose finger in the establishment’s face and promise to “Make America Great Again” resonated.

The results: President-elect Donald J. Trump, and a Congress controlled by Republicans.

Every program that helps the middle class and poor — Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, the Affordable Care Act, Food Stamps, nutrition programs for women and children — is in jeopardy as the most reactionary and selfish major political party in American history seizes control of our national government.

Democrats who wonder who is responsible for this debacle will find the answer by looking in the mirror.