Here is an endless screed on how the insignificant issue of emails handed the election to Trump. It’s bizarre that one can go on and on proving the insignificance of emails and not understand that all they are managing to demonstrate is that people were looking for any silly excuse not to vote for her. It sucks beyond belief but that’s what happened. If it weren’t for the emails, it would have been something else.
I am convinced that if the people of the US really wanted a Democrat in the White House and really didn’t want Trump, neither Comey nor Putin would have done anything. We are drowning in minutiae instead of looking at the big picture. I have students who come to my office to argue over a comma in an essay with 250 grammar mistakes that got a grade of F. Rehashing the email debacle is that kind of crazy.
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It’s Monday morning quarterbacking. It’s less ” this is proximate causation” and more that the writer is boggling that election season and results turned out the way it did.
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HAH! After reading the thousandth article like this one on websites like Salon.com and Slate.com, I’m finally starting to agree with the hysterical lefties that the U.S. won’t have any functioning democracy by 2020, and no Democrats left to vote or to run for the White House.
They’ll all be in the NUT HOUSE 🙂 🙂
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“U.S. won’t have any functioning democracy by 2020”
If North Carolina is any indication…
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We will all die of absurdity or climate change, or failing that, the heat death of the universe. :p
I just spent the better part of an hour on the phone talking about likely scenarios for a Trump administration. (“No, constitutional amendments are difficult, yes Obama care is going to poof”). It was not something I enjoyed at all (“Trump is going to get 8 years and at least 2 SCOTUS justices!”)
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I half agree with you, Clarissa. While I actually do think that the emails and Comey and Putin mattered, they only mattered because it was close enough for them to matter. It was close because a substantial fraction of the country wanted any Republican, even an insane game show host, over the Democrat on offer. That left the outcome in the hands of a small group of swing voters.
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Precisely. Nothing can stop a really strong candidate.
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The total lack of any real introspection on the part of the Democrats post-election has been almost as depressing as the upcoming reality of president Trump.
I’ve been home in Orange County CA for Christmas. If you’re not familiar with it, OC was the spiritual home of the Reagan revolution and has been reliably republican for ~80 years. It went for the Democratic candidate this year for the first time in the living memory of most people. To me, that says that Trump was a very beatable candidate. This election was definitely the Democrat’s to lose and they lost it.
And instead of any serious examination of what they did wrong, all we get is an endless chorus of “We did nothing wrong! It’s everyone else’s fault!” I was willing to indulge that for the first few weeks after the election as a way for people to get it out of their system, but there’s no excuse for it now.
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I agree completely. This is very sad and it doesn’t give much hope.
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Red Herring, Red Herring …
…Scapegoating, Scapegoating….
…Fall Guy, Fall Guy …
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