Yes, it was White Insecurity, which is not the same as, but certainly overlaps, racism and sexism and xenophobia.

I knew as I was wrapping that up that I’d forgotten something important. Thank you for adding it. That camera is classic capital-S Symbolism.

I think we had a pretty good answer in Bernie Sanders. I’m no Bernie Bro, but I think he was on to a message and a plan that can work. We have to shatter the myths of conservative economic theory with populist appeal. And we can make gains in social justice by framing them economically. Look, the GOP sold trickle-down…

So the people in your position who didn’t vote the way you did, the ONLY explanation, because they CAN’T be any less intelligent OR less rational than you or that would be, wtf, condescending??, is NOT that they’ve reacted out of fear or (not the same as stupidity) ignorance of the implications of Trump’s (nobody…

Well, your words radiate righteousness. And you’re not wrong — whites have kept nonwhites under their thumb since the beginning of Western imperialism.

Obama doesn’t have to say he’s going to be a savior for us to treat him as one. We’ve agreed twice now that we treated him as one. You’re making a distinction in search of a difference.

We elected a man who said “Yes, we can” and America said, “You do it.” And allowed him to have an adversary congress for 6 out of 8 years.

That’s good. There’s a lot of denial of why this happened going around, and we need to get past that quickly.

Is their legislature still red?

Let’s recognize that “racist” and “bigoted” and “morons” may be technically true but harmful and probably distracting terms. Let’s consider that economic uncertainty and a(n ironic) sense of disenfranchisement are perhaps closer to root causes than conscious rational choices of hatred over other recognized solutions.…

If you can’t look them in the eye, the country will not recover.

We probably need new party leaders. This reddening didn’t happen overnight. We elected a savior President and then sat back and expected him to singlehandedly fight all the demons. Today, we lost the Senate and bungled our bet-everything-on-another-President play. It seems reasonable that Democratic Party leaders…

Don’t accept it. Resolve to change it. Figure out how to change it. Do what is necessary to change it. Even if it means being not nice. We must learn the lessons that the rise of the GOP and the coronation of Trump has offered us.

Russian or Mandarin? The prospect of a conflict between those two states, with China’s economy almost ten times the size of Putin’s Russia, does not bode well for life on Earth, nevermind the United States. We might be better off digging deep holes and learning Cockroach.

You may be right — the deck may already be stacked to make sure the scared white working class has the biggest claws in the crab bucket for decades.

Obama can’t give up on the Patriot Act; that’s the Legislature’s job. Somehow I don’t think they’ll be inclined to give up the crazy pants power that they created and they will completely control for the next two or more years.

Is it because she’s both white and a woman? Or is it because she promoted ideals that their religion teaches them are morally indefensible? What must be sacrificed to get their vote? Or should instead we accept that those additional votes are too costly and look to appeal to others in their stead?

Of all his promises that is the least likely to be fulfilled.

Four years? If we think like that it will be eight. Or forever.

We recovered from Harding and Hoover with a Democratic President and Democrats in Congress with an anti-monopoly pro-labor bent and high taxes on the rich. We recovered through a World War.