The sad future of the democratic party

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I got the sense from the above post that calling a spade a spade referred to something other than a card analogy. Was that the case?

That's because it's a digging tool analogy. You've two main types of digging tools, shovels (wide boss with a leaf shaped curve) and spade (narrow boss with straight edges). That's where the analogy comes from, and the card suit also derives from the digging tool.

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The basic rule to politics is this: whenever the people like things the way they are or they just don't want change, they vote for the party that's already in power.  When they want change, they vote for the other guy.  Clinton lost certain key states because people in the rust belt wanted change.

Your hypothesis founders on the rock that is the fact that Trump got the exact same vote as Mittens and McCain before him. He idin't bring new voters into the party, he didn't change the deomgraphics of the party, he did nothing to change the Republitraitor base.

Trump "won" because the Republitraitors' "supress the vote" operation was more effective than the Democrats' "get out the vote operation". While GotV was probably worth 2 to 3 million votes, Crosscheck, illegal voter ID laws, and plain simple not counting votes in Democrat precents was worth 10 million votes and more.