[Rockingham]

This is a well-tuned intellectual explanation that is worse than wrong -- it is right but is almost beside the point as to why the Democrats lost. Above all, they lost because Trump beat them with an extraordinary campaign on behalf of an extraordinary message and an extraordinary candidate.

Trump was authentic, passionate, and campaigned all out, with new ideas, and in ways that reached beyond the traditional Republican base. As much as the Democrats deserved to lose, no other Republican could have done it.

[Buttons12]

Trump was authentic

That's why so many people give him a pass on comments that the standard politician could never utter. People know he's WYSIWYG, and they appreciate that. It also takes guts to defy political correctness. Trump's an alpha, a capitalist and a patriot.

As much as the Democrats deserved to lose, no other Republican could have done it.

Amen to that!