Months after the election dems are still gathering in town halls and strategy sessions trying to figure out how in the world we could have possibly lost the election to the world’s biggest orange buffoon.
Many blame the Clinton campaign; there is no doubt that they could have done a lot of things better. Ignoring blue-collar workers, taking states like Michigan and Wisconsin for granted, and not addressing the concerns that Trump supporters were raising was foolish and short-sighted. Calling millions of voters “deplorable” (even if many of them truly are) isn’t going to win over many votes and the persistent scandals that plagued her could have been handled with more transparency and forth-rightness.
Then of course there is the Democratic party itself, who can be criticized for running a candidate with decades of baggage. A candidate seen by many as just another establishment hack only concerned about Wall Street and the Washington elite. Revelations that the DNC was far less than fair in allowing the primary process to play out between Hillary and Bernie certainly didn’t help, angering Bernie supporters and costing the DNC a lot of trust. Perhaps Bernie could have beaten Trump. We’ll never know, because the Republicans were only running against Hillary from the start. That is where all their efforts were focused. Who knows if Bernie could have stood up to that kind of attack?
All we really know is that arguably the most qualified presidential candidate in American history was defeated by a candidate who is the least qualified person to ever be nominated to the office. While we can heap blame on the campaign for that and curse the party for its failures we need to be honest about the real reason for the catastrophe called “President” Trump: Democrat voters failed to do their duty.
Trump won for one simple reason. Republican voters, many of whom despise him, held their nose and voted for him anyway, because he was their nominee and they didn’t want to see Hillary in the White House.
Meanwhile Democrats cast “protest” votes for 3rd party candidates or didn’t vote at all because their great, white hope, Bernie, was “cheated” out of the nomination and they couldn’t stand “S’hillary”. With our national security and the future of the supreme court at stake instead of doing our duty and casting our vote for Democratic party nominee we went to the ballot box and threw a tantrum.
So now we get to enjoy daily tantrums thrown by a septuagenarian toddler with nuclear weapons. We can only hope we’re all still here in 2020 to learn from our mistakes and remember next time to do our damn job and support the nominee!