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How Trump Happened

We’ve heard the blame shifting. We’ve seen the finger pointing. By now, you’ve no doubt heard the theory from the Left: Donald Trump won the election because of uneducated white males, which is liberal codespeak for racists. Apparently, there are 60 million or so of them.

When the last shred of an argument one has is a shockingly and unfeasibly large allegation of racism, it’s time to reconsider strategy. They were wrong, so wrong it cost the Democrats everything. Hillary Clinton must be fuming that she not only lost–she lost to Donald Trump.

Just consider that. He’s the most ridiculous and inept Presidential candidate we’ve ever had. Any one of his stupendous blunders or unearthed scandals would have been enough to destroy any other campaign. How did he get this far?

The answer is simple: anger. Not just the kind that makes people throw a vase and feel better, but the kind that gets deferred.

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Do Let’s Shut Up

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I’m sick of the manufactured outrage this election. The American public was fully aware what kind of people both Presidential candidates were when we nominated them. We have only ourselves to blame.

Let’s be honest and stop with the fist-waving and name-calling. We relinquished that right with an enthusiasm and abandon that should trigger nothing but shame in retrospect.

Donald Trump is, for lack of a more articulate adjective, an asshole. He’s the spoiled rich kid, the bully, the fraternity jock who hopes a comely cheerleader will get drunk enough not to remember who took advantage of her in the morning. The evidence of his disdain for nonwhite elites is apparent to anyone who knows how to use Google, and it always has been.

Those who voted for him in the primaries should have known this. The only explanation is that we’re truly desperate or that we chose to disregard that in favor of bumper-sticker slogans.

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Here Comes Biden

It’s been reasonable to suspect he’ll run for the Presidency, and that now appears to be confirmed. He’s run twice before. This time, he’s been Vice President for 8 years.

If he does, Clinton is done. Biden doesn’t have any major scandals or suspicion to overcome. He’s been in politics for nearly four decades, and everybody knows him. He’s got the lock on New England and he’ll sweep the labor unions. He’s safe, charismatic, and connected. He doesn’t even really have to campaign for it.

Clinton will fall by the wayside. Bernie Sanders isn’t going to happen. The party is going to nominate Biden in the primaries.

We can make all the jokes we want about Biden’s gaffes. The fact is, this guy gets stuff done on gun control. He wrote the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, which we know as the “assault weapons ban.” Though the Act had a whole slew of provisions, Biden made it clear that it was about “guns, guns, guns.”

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