[kearnyirish2]

For all of their losses, Hillary still had a strong showing; the left is regrouping, not collapsing.

[CitizenUSA]

The left is definitely not giving up. That’s probably why they’ve been far more effective over the last few decades than their actual numbers would imply. The left still holds many levers of power. I’m sure Trump is no dummy. The left will make nice if necessary (against a powerful foe) so long as they keep moving the goal posts to the left. What we need is a leader who forces them to reach across the aisle to the RIGHT for a change.

[ealgeone]

I agree. This talk of the left collapsing is the biggest bunch of nonsense I’ve ever heard.

[Daveinyork]

Yup, half of the electorate voted for her or Jill because they promised to steal from the rest of us and give it to them.

They expected her to be Robin Hood, but the legendary Robin Hood stole from the government, and gave it back to the taxpayers, while the real Robin Hood most likely was less discriminate about whom he stole from, and kept what he stole, as the Clintons have.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Barone makes some salient points.

However, my fear is that if the Democrats had chosen
a different snake-oil salesman they still could have
won this.

Embracing Bernie’s Free College scam would have turned out legions of Millenial voters. I’m still somewhat stunned they didn’t try that.

[pieceofthepuzzle]

“For all of their losses, Hillary still had a strong showing; the left is regrouping, not collapsing.”

Of course they will continuing trying to regain power, but this election shook the foundations of their many decades long approach to consolidate power. It showed that the demographics models they’ve been dependent upon can shift. It showed that the biased support they’ve consistently had from the MSM, entertainment industry, and academia can be circumvented and that a candidate can now ‘go around’ them. It also further unmasked their bias, such that everything that comes out of the MSM these days is looked at differently than before.

If Trump does what he says, and actually does help the inner cities, establishing real entrepreneurial zones with incentives, and stop violence there, the demographic voting that the democrats have depended upon may significantly change. If he carries through with real, meaningful voting regulations that ensure accurate elections and suppress fraud, this will also have a significant effect. Stopping illegal immigration will take away another avenue that the left has counted on as a means of permanently shifting the demographics in their favor.

In short, you’re right that they will keep trying, but this was a very hopeful election.

[12th_Monkey]

I wish this kind of stuff would just be ignored. Pure evil never retreats, pure evil is never destroyed. The left is pulling back, collecting it’s thoughts and finding new ways to become evil. they will be back with a vengeance and we shouldn’t be complacent.

[FreedomPoster]

Interesting thing happened to me last night. I ate late on the way to the airport to pick up my wife, and sat at the end of the sushi bar at a Japanese place. There was an empty space next to me, then what was clearly a group of four sitting two on each side of the corner. As I was sitting there overhearing snippets of conversation, I came to realize these were election operatives, and I’m pretty sure they had worked for a failed Dem campaign for state rep one county over.

Their conversation was quite interesting. For one, I don’t think many Republican campaigns for state rep here have the sort of horsepower this group represented. For another, their attempts to noodle out what had just happened with Trump, and what it all meant, were engrossing. One guy brought up the idea of peeling off the non-Evangelical vote, and the other told him that after Trump, that whole model was dead. There was also the comment made that they think there will be a recession, since things have been going so swimmingly for the last 7 years, and it can’t go on forever, and that will make him vulnerable on reelection. It was all I could do to not laugh out loud at that one. I’m old enough and business savvy enough to know what a good recession recovery looks like.

The point to this being that they didn’t sound like they were going anywhere, and they seemed like some fairly sharp operators. So the election is over - and we better all get to work on the next election.

[SmokingJoe]

Yeah....the left is regrouping alright.... in California. Outside the huge urban centers in the east and west coasts, the left has been wiped out to a large extent.

[Ted Grant]

Hillary would have likely beaten any other of the GOP primary candidates. And modern liberalism plays on two basic instincts: envy, and the appeal of telling other people what to do.

The battle never ends.

[Pollster1]

For all of their losses, Hillary still had a strong showing; the left is regrouping, not collapsing.

Agreed. We cannot (yet) tell whether this was their Pearl Harbor and they took terrible losses but will recover, or this was the Battle of the Bulge and we stopped freedom's enemies cold in the current round of the perennial war between individuals and totalitarians. We have to crush socialism, crush the left, and crush the idea that the Constitution is a "living" document that means whatever totalitarians want it to mean.

We need to leave so little of their big government infrastructure that when the Trump Administration leaves our White House, the rhetoric of socialists, communists, #BlackLivesMatter, and thugs in general will have disappeared from America and from our allies. We need to roll back the lost freedoms so far that it will take them generations to rebuild their oppressive regime of regulations and restrictions. Perhaps, if we can wipe out enough of the damage, they will become demoralized and not bother starting again from scratch (probably not, but I can dream).

[Political Junkie Too]

For all of their losses, Hillary still had a strong showing; the left is regrouping, not collapsing.

I think the point of the column was that the Left is losing the national base as represented by state offices. The Left has fewer governorships and state legislatures since the 1920s, and so is top-heavy as depicted by Hillary Clinton's popular vote.

Clinton's popular vote is not translating to state control, which proves that her support is concentrated on the coastal megalopolises. That's a tough foundation on which to base a new rise of the Left.

-PJ

[SamAdams76]

Look at the people below. There are millions like them in America. They are fully indoctrinated by the socialists and will never, ever turn conservative.

I'm sure President Trump is going to go a great job and will put himself in position for a strong re-election effort in 2020 but these folks will always be among us. We must be forever vigilant and be looking to bring up new talent beyond Donald Trump and Mike Pence.

[Stand Watch Listen]

I quite agree. With the 2008 election there were numerous articles regarding the total Republican collapse. It was a possibility with the past Republican leaders that were in control.

Perhaps Trump will build on his election...his first six months will certainly give us a window on the Republican future.