Former Secretary of State, First Lady, United States Senator from New York and presidential candidate Hillary Clinton keeps reliving and rationalizing her loss to President Donald Trump.
In a speech in India last month she said: “We do not do well with white men and we don’t do well with married, white women. And part of that is an identification with the Republican Party, and a sort of ongoing pressure to vote the way that your husband, your boss, your son, whoever, believes you should.
“If you look at the map of the United States, there is all that red in the middle, places where Trump won. What that map doesn’t show you is that I won the places that own two-thirds of America’s Gross Domestic product. I won the places that are optimistic, diverse, dynamic, moving forward. And his whole campaign, ‘Make America Great Again,’ was looking backwards. You don’t like black people getting rights, you don’t like women getting jobs, you don’t want to see that Indian American succeeding more than you are, whatever that problem is, I am going to solve it.”
For the love of God, would she please get over it! Her loss is the fault of “white men” and dumb white woman. The minorities who voted for President Trump; 8% African Americans, 29% Hispanics, 29% Asian and 37% other, are they deplorables and unredeemables as well?
Mrs. Clinton went on in her speech to degrade those of us who do not reside on a coast, after all we all know the folks in mid-America are much less intelligent and to quote Mrs. Clinton less, “diverse, optimistic, dynamic, moving forward” than her supporters on the coasts.
It is not my place to give advice to the Democrats, but folks perhaps you should not degrade the majority of voters in the majority of states? If we are told we are less “optimistic, diverse, dynamic, moving forward”
than others, most of us do not agree or approve of this stereotyping, degrading and prejudging half of the American population.
The good folks in the Democratic Party will do what they always do when they suffer a horrible loss at the national, state and local level — they will run to the right. In the special election in Pennsylvania, Mr. Lamb, a 33-year-old former prosecutor and United States Marine, presented himself as independent-minded and neighborly, vowing early that he would not support former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi to lead House Democrats and playing down his connections to his national party. He echoed traditional Democratic themes about union rights and economic fairness, but took a very conservative position on the hot-button issue of guns and national defense.
Before the next national election, the Democrats will recruit candidates who are centrists as they did in the earlier elections and increase their power. As they always do, they will primary challenge their own candidates and replace them with a traditional liberal. As time passes they become too progressive, too liberal, too socialist and lose big, only to then move back to the right once again.
The next national slate of Democrats will not be the Hillary Clinton faction of the party but more of the second term of the President William Clinton faction.
If Republicans wish to hold to the majority at the national level, and in most states, they will embrace President Trump’s centrist message, that probably will not happen, the party in power rarely moves more to the center so the Democrats will pick up seats in the House, Senate and at the local level.
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