Just a quickie: I just posted an essay on VOXery bullshit yesterday, but thought I'd add a note.
The centrists are busily doing a little dance step that allows them to deny that Trump got working-class votes. Those voters were simply "uneducated," the centrists insist, not struggling. This brilliant piece of political deduction is accomplished by ignoring class differences within the "non-college educated" demographic ... it assumes they votes as a bloc. But of course that demographic includes highly successful small business people (contractors, tradesmen, restaurateurs, etc.) who traditionally vote Republican in addition to unemployed wage earners who don't. You can't lump them together ... the latter group went Trump this time whereas they went Obama last time (in the Upper Midwest at least).
The Democratic neoliberals are like the Old GM. Imagine a staff meeting at GM in say 1999 to come up with a production plan. Engineer (aka Bernie Sanders): "Hey, we got these great ideas for making higher tech, gas-saving, economical models to compete with Toyota and Nissan and the new Korean companies." Brass (neoliberals): "we're already making profit with our over priced, obsolete SUVs and trucks. Why bother to retool? We'll just continue to make what we make. Besides, the union sucks."
That's the Democratic centrists in 2016, even after the loss this year. "We've had modest success in the past by using identity politics and free trade as our platform. Screw the engineers who want to build something new. Let's just keep doing what we're doing."
And of course we all know what happens next. The company goes under.