Posted on 11/09/2016 8:28:47 AM PST by mandaladon
NEW YORK The Democratic Party was decapitated overnight.
Hillary Clinton's stunning loss to Donald Trump created a power vacuum at the top of the party and a crisis of confidence among its remaining standard bearers.
Clinton was nowhere to be seen at her election night party early, held in a convention center in Manhattan whose glass ceiling was supposed to represent the metaphorical one she seemed so close to shattering just hours earlier. But the ceiling went unbroken and she conceded privately to Trump.
Instead, the unenviable task of addressing Clinton's crestfallen supporters fell to John Podesta, Clinton's campaign chairman, who is better known as a behind-the-scenes operator than a public leader.
"I know you've been here a long time. It's been a long night and a long campaign. But I can say, we can wait a little longer can't we?" Podesta said early Wednesday. "Several states are too close to call, so we are not going to have any more to say tonight."
Clinton is due to make a statement Wednesday morning.
Clinton aides and supporters in the campaign's final months believed they were fighting a noble battle to defend the ramparts of the republic from the existential threat posed by Trump. They were confident that they would not just defeat the GOP nominee, but also repudiate him and everything he stands for with an overwhelming margin.
And yet despite having virtually every possible advantage at her disposal, from more money to better staffers to better data, it was Clinton and her party that was repudiated in the biggest presidential shock in recent memory.
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Best result last night was not the election of Trump - which make no mistake about it, was deeply gratifying.
No, the best result last night was the complete decapitation of the Democratic Party.
Its shrunken, leaderless and in complete disarray.
It couldn’t happen to a more deserving enemy.
That my friend, is due to the surplus of D votes in CA and NY.
Subtract those, Trump had a decisive win.
Clinton couldn’t generate as much enthusiasm with young people and minorities as Obama did. A youngish black or Hispanic will be sought after to rise to the leadership. Problem is, anyone of that ilk with the position and experience to rise to the top is apt to be to the left of Sanders.
“the Democrats basically let the Clintons and their hangers-on treat the party like a parasitic wasp treats a caterpillar.
Who should be surprised that there’s no one left to pick up the pieces?”
I was thinking about this earlier this morning. Who is on the Democrat “bench” for 2020 and beyond. Surely not Sanders (too old) or Warren (too left). O’Malley never got any traction in the primaries and Bayh was trounced in his bid for the Senate in Indiana. There don’t seem to be too many up-and-coming young Democrats.
One set of electoral votes for LA, San Fransicko, Sacramento, and Silicon Valley. Another set for the rest of the state. Ditto New York.
In doing so they sucked up all the energy of the party and now no one is left to step into leadership.
Let’s hope they fight it out with automatic weapons.
Regional party? From your lips to God’s ears... But she did take 49% of the popular vote, rt? That’s way more than regional.
After reading this loquacious tripe I’ve come to the conclusion that they still do not get it!
Also their usual strategy of fixing their problems by sowing divisiveness has been greatly weakened.
...the nearly unanimous fawning of a sycophantic press (print and networks)...
...the inexhaustible support of the Republican hierarchy...
...3,000,000 illegal alien votes and 3,000,000 (minimum) additional votes from multiple voters and dead bodies...
Take that away and she was a remarkably weak candidate.
I hope the Clintons are finished in politics, and this SHOULD stop the flow of influence money to their Crime Syndicate Charity. The only charity benefiting from it = The Clintons themselves. Chelsea’s $3 million wedding....
Shameful!!!!
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