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Not a bad interview.. 35 minutes

http://www.hughhewitt.com/wp-content/uploads/JonAllenAmieParnesShattered.mp3

I couldn’t give a ####. Except maybe for chuckles.

As long as Trump won.

https://www.vevo.com/watch/the-rolling-stones/shattered-live-at-roundhay-park-leeds-1982/GBC251401517

Making me want to get that book!

I definitely think it needs to be someone who is not in the establishment, as the selection proved, someone who is the leader for, you know, there’s so many voices in the Democratic Party right now, and I think they’re trying to find that person. And that’s why you have someone like Bernie Sanders out there campaigning for the DNC, someone who isn’t really technically a Democrat.

This is the datum that is killing me, because it's right in front of their noses and they don't want to see it. If someone like Sanders hit a nerve as he did, it is because there is nothing in the current Democrat party that energized their base. Hillary least of all. And there is a massive miscalculation going on here - Bernie didn't succeed because he's slightly to the left of Trotsky, he succeeded because of what he isn't: an establishment drone. Like Hillary. Like Yeb. Like McCain and Schumer and Romney and Schultz and every other name associated with the Powers That Be. They need to start asking themselves why Trump succeeded, and it wasn't because of the Russians or because the Republican voters are stupid or racist.

Some of this is understandable. The Dems, due to the urban nature of their power centers, tend toward machine politics and big donors, and that's not very compatible with a populist sentiment in the electorate. But B.J. Billy knew how to make them work for him. Hillary only knew how to assure them that she'd be working for them. Big difference.

Four years of violent tantrums and comic-book resistance is only going to solidify Trump's position. The Dems need to start to become a party of adults once again. If they haven't learned that by 2018 it's going to be a very long climb to 2020.