Supporting liberalized trade in an academic sense and support for trade agreements is not necessarily synonymous, though. Many of the IP provisions in the TPP are actually protectionist, especially with regard to pharma patents.

There’s a difference between free trade as a broad academic concept and the specific trade agreements like NAFTA and the TPP that we’ve seen over the past 20 years. These agreements have little to do with free trade. They are not about eliminating trade barriers, they are heavily tilted towards capital over labor,…

Who’s arguing that Trump isn’t corrupt? And I never said it was about optics. Let me repeat, it’s not personal corruption, it’s systemic corruption. The way the Clinton’s operate has become the norm in Washington, and people are fed up with it. They didn’t vote for Trump because they thought he was less corrupt, they…

See my response below to address your “false narrative” claim.

No, it’s really not. sure, a lot of the attacks on Clinton were bullshit. But the email thing was serious enough that she was under FBI investigation and threat of indictment. Regardless of the fact that the whole investigation came about as part of the GOP Benghazi witch hunt, the misconduct was real, Not criminal…

I would have happily gotten behind Warren or Biden. There was still time for a course correction though the convention, but all criticism of Clinton was shouted down by people who wildly underestimated her potential problems as a candidate.

It’s a “false narrative” that she was a flawed candidate after she just got BTFO by the most unpopular candidate in history. JFC you’re delusional.

I said she underperformed among those voters. Obama won 63% of under $30K and 57% of $30-50K. Clinton won those income brackets by 53% and 51%. Clearly I’m misinformed.

There are over 62 million more people living in the U.S. In terms of percentages, she underperformed among working-class voters, and it was exacerbated by doing even worse among them regionally in “blue wall” rust-belt-states, which translated to lost electoral votes. Pretending that’s not true isn’t particularly…

I saw that as well. It seems like relying on identity politics without engaging in the retail politics to back it up may not be a very good strategy. You can’t just assume that any demographic is an automatic vote, you have to actively engage with them and convince them to support you, be it latinos, blacks, or white…

The blame falls squarely on those, you included, who pushed a deeply flawed candidate and despite being warned repeatedly she was an incredibly bad matchup against a populist anti-establishment candidate, in a political climate when the electorate was sending the clear message they are fed up with politics as usual…

Yes, maybe we should have had a conversation about the emails much earlier. The DNC ran a candidate who spent the first half of 2016 under threat of indictment, and all the conventional wisdom on the left didn’t see it as a problem.

Ultimately, what does it matter? We don’t elect presidents based on the popular vote.

Well, great. At least we now don’t have to deal with four years of President Trump. Oh, wait... 

Are they working the fake document market?

Yes, I read that. Hillary won those “concerned about the economy”, but Trump significantly won those who said “my financial situation has gotten worse in the last 4 years.” My main point was that Trump got less votes than Romney, so there wasn’t any huge surge of voters pulling the lever in favor of white nationalism.…

The suspension of habeas corpus during the Japanese internment was only legal because we were at war at the time. I mean, I guess they could claim we’re at war now because we are in a permanent state of war somewhere, but I doubt it would fly in the courts. I expect there will be legal challenges to this. It would be…

Someone posted this on Reddit, it makes some interesting points beyond the economic argument why mass deportation is such a bad idea:

She didn’t get millions more popular votes, right now it’s around 575,000.

Actual polling showed the race tightening in the final week, especially in rust belt states like PA, MI, and WI that proved pivotal in the election, it really wasn’t that far off, it was the interpretation of the data by people like Nate Silver that has people criticizing the polls. The GE polling was off by a couple…