What is it about progressives and this election? Donald
Trump is right; if Clinton had won and Republicans had marched in the streets, threatened
members of the Electoral College to try to get them to be faithless, claimed it
was fake news or the Russians or the FBI that lost them the election, and
gotten childishly emotional on camera, Clinton followers would be claiming it
really did prove they were a “basket of deplorables”.
Hillary, of course, is performing true to form. She simply
can’t admit that her election loss had anything to do with her; it had to be
(take your pick) the FBI, or the Russian hackers, or fake news, or unfair media
coverage..or..or. It couldn’t possibly
be anything to do with her own carelessness with secret documents, or her uninspiring
message (whatever it was), or the pay-for-play payments from foreign
governments to the Clinton Foundation, or her cozy and high-paying relationship
with Wall Street, or her failure to pay attention to her Blue State supporters
in key swing states. It had, surely, to be someone else’s fault.
But what is it about the rest of the progressive media and Democratic elites that
they can’t just accept that they lost because of a weak campaign and a tainted
candidate, and turn to the business of correcting their mistakes and preparing
for the next election? I’m an
independent, socially liberal and supportive of many progressive causes and
positions, and the Democrats could have my vote if they would act like
grownups. But they certainly won’t get
my vote if they continue to act like petulant spoiled children who didn’t get
their way.
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