The sad future of the democratic party

[Pat Mustard]

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Still,  I can't help but think, there were so many Republicans, established, well connected Republicans and big Republican media sources, all of which refused to vote for Trump.

That was optics. They voted for Trump, they told their partisans to vote for Trump. But it was expedient for them to pretend they weren't voting for Trump during part of the election cycle.

This vote shouldn't have even been close.  There were people who were convinced to vote for Trump that simply weren't being counted.  Where did they come from?  How can we convince them not to vote for him again, or how can they be convinced to vote for the Democrats in midterms?  PC culture, as it's being called, isn't convincing them of anything except that progressives are the enemy.  And unless we can change their minds, they're going to keep voting for people like Trump.

But the thing is Trump didn't bring anybody new to the table for the Republicans, in fact I'd say he shrunk the Republican base a good bit, what few minorities thought the party would work for them have been severely disabused of that notion since he started (in fact I wouldn't be surprised if the party invented voters for Trump). His numbers are the same as any Republican candidate would have gotten, and probably 10-15 million less than the worst Democrat would get in an unjimmied election.