We surely do. We need to fix the state parties so we have a deeper bench, we need to promote charismatic and sympathetic voices to push the message outside politics, we need to find a way to bring the labor movements back with a vengeance.

The only thing that gives me ANY hope right now is that we got a reasonable batch of new senators. None of them are perfect (who is?), but if we can get Duckworth or Harris to carry a strong, unflinching, but sympathetic message we MIGHT be able to pull this thing out of the fire.

Yeah, I’m terrified that we’ve lost the ability to reach these people

It’s like how everyone in politics seems OBSESSED with that one frigate from the war of 1812. It’s like “that war was 200 years ago, why are you arguing about what it was intended for, it’s clearly an old time-y warship.”

NO. QUESTION. Those things were all a huge part of this. Populism isn’t solely about economics though, and I think it would be silly to deny that Donald Trump’s appeal in the rust belt states was anything but primarily populist.

The new batch for Senate candidates? Harris or Duckworth? They’re pretty charismatic and have largely solid liberal bona fides.

The notorious RBG can easily live another five years on the strength of her rage alone.

Typical elitist liberal stance. Almond butter is far too expensive, and the greater expense isn’t made up by the marginal increase in tastiness. Peanut butter 2020! An affordable legume for an affordable nation!

I honest to god don’t know what I would do in that primary.

I also meant more the ludicrously infeasible stuff like building a wall and making Mexico pay for it or throwing a political opponent in prison. I’m still terrified about the rest of it.

If this election was going to be a disaster at least we got Senator Harris from the wreck.

I don’t really think that’s going to happen. Trump may have been elected but due process didn’t vanish suddenly into the night.

Meh, we gave them a choice between the established political order and a kooky outsider who claimed to represent them. Giving them a choice between two kooky outsiders might have led them to pick the one they trusted with control of the nuclear arsenal.

Yeah we (I voted for Clinton in the primary so I’ll own it) hardcore misjudged how strong the midwestern populism was this year.

I think it’s worth pointing out that half the people around me when I go to work tomorrow probably didn’t vote for trump. According to early polls it looks like my city only went about 25% trump.

Agreed! I was really excited. She was one of my main motivators in turning out for the primary. Look forward to voting for her in an eventual presidential primary.

The way I asked people this was...

Yeah, I feel like the Right Hon. Kara Brown is going to have Opinions about this.

I mean, if we’re listing out the times we awkwardly misrepresented genocide I once definitely wrote a paper in high school history defending the official textbook’s frankly questionable portrayal of the European arrival in the Americas.