Election 2016 One Year Later

In hindsight, it may have been a good thing that Bernie didn't get elected because he probably would have gotten the John Tyler treatment. Whatever was left of the DNC would have delegitimatized Sanders and the People's Party that the Draft Bernie folks are currently pushing for would have been created out of necessity because the Democratic Party would have split in two, resulting in GOP gains in '18 and the Dems conceding the '20 race.

Had Hillary been elected, there would have been nonstop probes on her e-mails and Benghazi--with impeachment likely and conviction possible--leading to President Tim Kaine by the end of next year. Her book tour just further confirmed my suspicions about her: She will never take responsibility for anything she did.

People need to stop treating her as someone who got cheated out of the presidency. She and her crew rigged the primaries and deprived younger voters a voice. Her strategists thought it was a good idea to ignore PA, MI and WI. Chuck Schumer thought that Hillary would get suburban voters after abandoning working class voters.

One year on, the Democratic Party as a whole still refuses to learn anything from being wiped out coast to coast, not including last night's results. The party won governorships in NJ and VA because they were expected to. Meanwhile, the WA State Senate flip ended a fragile right wing majority that was the result of a partnership between conservative business Democrats allying themselves with Republicans.