Vice President Kamala Harris was soundly and devastatingly beaten on Election Day by President-elect Donald Trump, who can now claim he emerged with a landslide victory over his opponent.
In the days following the crushing loss, Democrats have grappled, hilariously, with why and how they could have possibly lost to Trump, who they claim is the worst possible thing that could happen to America.
In a lengthy piece published by The Guardian, one of its writers, clearly stricken by deep Trump Derangement Syndrome, warned the Democratic Party that former President Barack Obama and the old ways of the party have to go.
The piece was titled, "The long Obama era is over."
The piece attempted to explain, to some degree why Democrats were wiped out this election, with plenty of excuses and blame to go around.
At one point, the columnist wrote, "The long Obama era is over. The familiar homilies – about how there are no red states or blue states and Americans share a set of common values and working institutions novelly and externally threatened by agents of chaos like Trump – never described political reality."
They added, "They now no longer work reliably even as political messaging. The hunt should be on for alternatives.
The columnist also wrote that the Democratic Party is still in a "stunned silence" while it processes the loss -- a loss that tens of millions of Americans and a wide swath of political analysts and media types saw coming a mile away.
They just don't care to admit how easy it was to predict a Trump win. Most Americans who aren't completely whacky simply wanted a shot at affordable groceries, gas, and utility bills.
Lower interest rates would be nice, too. Whether it was Trump or virtually any other decently popular Republican, Harris, who was at least partially responsible for what's happened the past four years, would have probably lost to them.
According to Newsweek, Trump was able to gain support from new groups that Republicans used to not have, including this time around, people who once voted for Obama.
The outlet noted:
A surprising shift in American voting patterns has emerged as a significant number of low income non-college educated voters, who traditionally support Democrats, are now supporting Donald Trump.
Again, politics comes second to most reasonable Americans who simply want better economic circumstances for themselves and their children.
It's not difficult to understand why Harris lost, and why Trump won, so bigly.
