When I saw the title of this piece, I thought it would be awful- full of rending of garments and pointing of fingers. I’m glad i read it, however- it’s an amazing piece that needs to be read in full by everyone. I’ll post some excerpts, and let everyone form their own conclusions.
The Democratic Party is screwing up its opposition to President-elect Donald Trump. They can’t help it.
...believers in liberal democracy — people who believe generally that the theory laid out in the Declaration’s preamble is correct — must constantly fight a two-front war. We must defend the structures of liberal democracy while working within those structures to grasp the levers of power and use them to achieve just ends.
Or, as I’ve posited before, it’s extremely hard to win a contest of any kind when only one side has any regard for fair play or actual rules of engagement.
But our Constitution lays out a bizarre, arcane, anti-democratic process created for the specific purpose of protecting the political power of slave states. And Donald Trump won under that process.
This perfectly outlines Why We Lost. Not coal, not the economy, not Being Exciting- this.
If liberal democracy survives these next four years, then liberals must confront the fact that our current system of government has failed.
Indeed.
I left out the juicy bits. I recommend reading the whole article.