Yesterday I sketched out how the Democrats are responding to their election loss last year. What has not been sufficiently pointed out is that both political parties are behaving as though they lost the presidential election for a very simple reason. Trump was elected president because enough voters in enough states to elect a president repudiated the positions of the political establishments of both major political parties in specific policy areas.
Now both Democrats and Republicans are hurriedly trying to underscore their past errors. I’m not sure how they think this will benefit them but they apparently think it will.
I’m not sure it’s gone unreported. Many concluded in the post mortem that Trump changed the debate, what is fashionably called a disruptor.
Politicians with one finger in the wind and the other on the polls don’t impress me as a voter. Trump said: “I’ve been greedy for myself and now I’ll be greedy for America”
Honest self reflection coupled with a promise I believe because it wasn’t prefaced with bull.