Don’t blame Trump’s supporters for this mess: it belongs squarely with the Democratic Party leadership and Hillary herself. In a year when 72% of voters thought the election was rigged, Hillary with the connivance of Debbie “Payday Lendor” Wasserman-Schultz did just that. In a year when voters were fed up with politicians who lie, Hillary explained to her Wall Street banker friends that it was necessary to tell a different story to the public than to them in order to be elected. And in a year when voters were in an anti-establishment mood, Hillary was an establishment politician who used her establishment connections to block a genuinely anti-establishment, honest candidate. The Democratic Party establishment, as super-delegates, chose her in spite of polls showing her losing to Trump and Bernie winning.
As much as I dislike Mr. Trump, he was a genuinely anti-establishment candidate. And as much as I disagree with the Republican party platform, the party establishment did allow, however reluctantly, an anti-establishment candidate to succeed. The Democrats didn’t. And that is why we lost.
I believe that the Democrats will have an excellent chance for taking back the White House and more in 2020. But it will require change: real change. And the hardest part will be to wean the party leadership off the fire hose of money from Wall Street. And put progressives in charge.
And then maybe our first woman president will be Elizabeth Warren...