My guess is that, with Obama's first win, the hardcore, illiberal Left thought it was over - that "change had come" and that demographics would keep it that way permanently.
Looks like they were a little early on that. So, after thinking the long, tough battle was over and getting beat, they completely lost their shit.
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Without a doubt.
The taunting from the left on the result of the ekection started BEFORE the election.
Lots of demographic data, we'll not see another republican president in our lifetimes, etc, etc.
The smug sense of superiority and that they were in control so everyone else could just sit down and STFU is not something I have forgotten. They believed it, all the way up to their candidate who thought she had it in the bag. All laughing at Trump, ridiculing the "deplorables" merrily counting their chickens while ignoring the discontent because they thought they had the luxury of marginalizing and simply telling ~50% of the population to STFU, apprently not realizing they had to actually win the election before showing their true colors.
Oopsie. Lol.
The illiberal, authoritarian Regressive Left -- the people in control of a pretty large swath of the party -- refuse to acknowledge their part in Trump's win.
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They can't, as by doing so they would have had admit their policies are part of the problem. That they failed. That they lost. That they might have to rethink things.
Hence the rest of the noise on "cheating" "we actually won" blah, blah, blah.
Here's the rub for them. This has resulted in what we are seeing now on the left. The messaging that they didn't actually lose to avoid taking responsibilty, led to the belief that it was true, which led to inaction on the reasons underpinning their loss, which has led them to continue down the same path.
They're very, very literally doing this to themselves.
For me, personally, this is hilarious. It is right in plain sight and they cannot, will not, see it, as doing so is admitting they were wrong, while not doing so and continuing on their path is self defeating.
They are fighting themselves- and losing. Lol.
The Democrat party cannot admit they lost. They cannot admit that conservatism is alive and well. If they did that, it would knock the wind out of their voters sails. A good percentage of their voters are lazy. They don't really care about voting. It's the real reason they were (and are) fighting against Voter-ID.
Instead, lie to their constituents, and tell them they really won, it's just that those crafty Republicans once again found a way to cheat them out of their win. Democrat voters are not very bright people. They can't see the pattern:
Trump win--Russian collusion, Comey announced re-opening of investigation.
Bush reelection--Diebold machines.
Bush first election--Punch card ballots, Supreme Court, Brother was Governor............
Republican takeover of the House in 2010--Gerrymandering, Voter-ID.
When was the last time the Democrat party ever announced "We did something wrong. We need to work on our policies." I can't recall such a time.
yep, and we're seeing it out in the wild and right here in this thread.
Even with some on the left indicating that they've gone full retard and they need to make some modifications here to win this time around, there still to me seems little stomach for accepting that simple fact and retooling a bit to actually increase their chances of winning.
Instead we're still seeing proclamations that Hillary won.
No. She. Did. Not.
She lost. Trump is the President.
This is at this point bordering on a clinical psychosis. 3 years later we're still hearing. "We really won" Nope. Guess again.
Beyond that silly shit, when you have the likes of Obama, Carville and Chris Matthews indicating that the nuttery has gone too far and is hurting their chances this time too, it may be time to stop with the false claims of victory and think about what it will take to get an actual victory.
Winning a race for the White House is the only thing that matters. Period. Some of them get it, but it would seem a whole lot of others don't. They still think they won, FFS, and are busily playing on like the band on the Titanic, claiming all is well. Ok, have it your way, but no whining this time please, lol.