Q both parties, but rather because the Russians somehow were behind it or, uh, or the country was shot through with white supremacy and that somehow explained it. Um, and so we never really got, uh, a true, uh, sort of accounting or reappraisal of what Trump's election meant, and instead the media turned to, like, this hysteria This mode that we're not even out of yet. Your reactions to that?
A No, I think, you know, it's one of the most amazing things about the 2016 election, which is, first of all, you know, in a lot of ways, Barack Obama being this kind of once in a generation political talent papered over the, the incredibly serious systemic problems the Democrats had, even while he was being reelected underneath Obama and all his glitter and glamour. The Democratic Party was collapsing. They were losing state houses and congressional seats and governorships all over the country, and the reason for that is the anger, the growing anger with the neoliberal policies that the Democratic Party in the early 19 nineties had decided to embrace in lieu of the working class politics for which they had always been known. The kind of Clintonite, ah, pronouncement that the Democratic Party needs to start embracing corporate America instead of unions, That it needs to move much closer to these, this politics that says, you know, we're going to encourage, um, corporate America, we're going to embrace the Pentagon, and all of that, and it radically changed the, the Democratic Party into this party of technocracy and the elites culminating with the Obama presidency. And the only, what is amazing is, in 2016, the Democrats lost the White House To a game show host. And so you would think they would wonder why that happened, as you were saying, right? You would think they would wonde…
AI assessment note: “instead they invented this long list of people that they decided were to blame instead”