Behold the tremendous power that Democrats have frittered away — from January 2009 through the aftermath of Election Day — thanks to Obama and his ideas:
•Democrats surrendered the White House to political neophyte Donald J. Trump.
•US Senate seats slipped from 55 to 46, down 16 percent.
•US House seats fell from 256 to 194, down 24 percent.
•Democrats ran the Senate and House in 2009. Next year, they will control neither.
•Governorships slid from 28 to 16, down 43 percent.
•State legislatures (both chambers) plunged from 27 to 14, down 48 percent
•Trifectas (states with Democrat governors and both legislative chambers) cratered from 17 to 6, down 65 percent.
In terms of boosting his party’s state-level strength, Obama is the worst president since World War II. Reagan is the best.
Democrats can chant the soothing lie that this wholesale, multi-level rejection of their party stems from “structural racism,” the legacy of Jim Crow, the immortal tentacles of slavery, or whatever other analgesic excuse they can scrounge up. The same nation that they claim cannot outgrow its bigotry somehow elected and then re-elected Obama, quite comfortably.
In addition, all those “enlightened” white voters that voted for King Three-Putt twice are now racist misogynists.
Funny how that works.