What’s weird about this narrative is that many of these voters, in Michigan and Wisconsin, anyway, voted for Obama. I’m not being dismissive, I’m just still trying to figure this all out. I think most of the reasons being discussed today are overly simplistic, not that I have any better answers. It’s probably a little…

Talk to them? As Obama reminded us this morning, politics is persuasion, and when we lose, perhaps we should look within our party and not merely write off people voting otherwise as irredeemable. Clinton lost votes in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Ohio, which are all states the Repubs have worked on crushing union power.…