First, congratulations to the Trump team. This must have been like opening that box on Christmas day to find the present you honestly didn't think anyone heard you ask for. The spin doctors were all but giving up leading into the evening's coverage, and then, boom. The Trump team did a spectacular job tapping into the demons which lurk in the hearts of white America and using that to drive voters to the polls. Conversely, the work done to blunt the enthusiasm of the dem GOTV was another great success. Overall, it was a very good campaign that you ran.
Now, on to the issues.
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Originally Posted by killer_carlson
As someone put it tonight, it was a referendum on their instutitions in Washington and it was overwhelming that they are broken.
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This was obviously said by someone that does not understand how the system works. Changing presidents doesn't change the institutions. If you want real change, you have to go all Shakespeare and kill all the lawyers. You need to clean house and vote everyone out of office. This was not an election focused at changing anything, other than the guy that will be the face of the country and be considered out social, moral and ethical leader. The influence the president has over domestic affairs is so limited that a change in that role is going to have a limited effect. To change that you have to eliminate the returning members of congress.
It is also said by someone who does not understand the core message of Donald Trump's campaign. He is not an agent of change. He is an agent of regression. He appeals to all of those old white folks who have lost all of their manufacturing jobs, and are watching their white entitlement fade away, by promising them to take America back to the 1950's. This isn't about change. Where is the forward looking vision? Where is the plan to change the economy from one based of a failing hydrocarbon molecule to something else? Where is the vision in dealing with the failing entitlement programs, that his supporters will milk dry and leave empty for the future? Where is the message of change, other than he's going to go to Washington and kick some ass, making it terrific again?
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Hopefully American democracy gets itself sorted out quickly. It's going to be painful for a lot of the political elites, but it's going to happen.
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Really? What political elites were affected last night? Did Chuck Grassley lose his seat? Rand Paul? Pat Toomey? Tim Scott? Mark Rubio? Lisa Murkowski? John ####ing McCain? And on and on and on? This was not a referendum on change in Washington. Anyone saying that is completely uninformed or is looking for a contrite talking point to try and coverup what really just happened. The political elites almost all stayed intact last night. Nothing in Washington changes, no matter how hard people want to try and make themselves feel better with the disaster that just took place.
The American people spoke last night, and I respect that action. But I think they spoke on emotional terms and not pragmatic terms. Joseph de Maistre really hit the nail on the head when he said, and I'm paraphrasing, "Every country has the government it deserves and in a democracy people get the leaders they deserve." The American people got both with this vote. I just hope they can deal with the results and the reaction from the rest of the world.