Elizabeth Warren 2020

[John Knoble]

The DLC strategy of straddling the middle, courting favor with Wall Street and putting the concerns of the blue collar left came back to bite them this election. The Clinton campaign and its media and DNC backers pushed a lot of wrong buttons with voters who already felt they had been shoved aside for decades. The mistreatment of Sanders didn't help. It also didn't help that some on the left tried to cast Trump, a German-American with Jewish relatives who had to claim to be Swedish to do business in New York, as some type of a proto-fascist. The Drumpenfuhrer tactics may have caused some backlash in states like Wisconsin.

Areas where Trump outperformed Romney:

German-American distribution:



Hillary Clinton may be a good person, and she is certainly very capable, but the political team (as opposed to the governing team) around the Clintons was not very high-minded.

Even so, it wasn't a Reagan landslide.

Even many Trump voters probably have some concern that we are in uncharted territory now. With that said, he's a capable person who, like most people granted a position of responsibility, will probably be instilled with a conviction that he must govern responsibly.

It could be a blessing in disguise for Democrats, as the winner of this election may be destined to be the goat for decades of economic mismanagement in which both parties were complicit.