So if I'm following it, basically what happened here is that Obama was too cool to raise money for the DNC, then Debbie Wasserman Schultz wasted all their money on think tanks and Hamilton tickets, leaving the party broke. Hillary, who had phat staxx from Goldman Sachs and Harvey Weinstein, loans the DNC money in exchange for turning the DNC into essentially a captured shop of the Hillary campaign. Then Bernie Sanders does better than expected to begin the primary and the campaign has to use the bought-and-paid-for DNC to influence the primary against Bernie. Then after all that, she still loses to an idiot because everyone fucking hates her so much. Cool cool.

Common trope in media criticism: the media is/was structurally incapable of noting that the GOP is no longer a "normal" political party. Wrong! The GOP is a normal political party. It's the Democrats that are something else. The GOP is a distasteful, racist, weird party. Sure. But its fundamental commitment at all levels is getting itself elected. That's what parties do. Their whole purpose is to provide an infrastructure through which individual candidates can win office.

The Democrats, on the other hand, are something more like a nebulous consultancy for people too lazy to finish grad school. The Democrats are a "strategic communications firm" that bills city governments looking for "smart solutions" to "the problems of tomorrow." I make fun of the GOP as a party of professional grifters, which they are. But the Braziles of the world are running the *real* scam. In the immortal words of Frank Zappa, "we're only in it for the money."

If you try to understand the Democrats as a political party, you come away confused. If you consider them a "think tank," they make sense. Like a think tank, their main purpose is to employ failed academics, the Yglesii of the world pretending to do research. The Dems' main concern is to scam six-figure salaries for guys with Ivy-League BAs, too dumb to manage grad schools language requirements. We laugh about all the right-wing welfare publications, but the whole Democratic party is welfare for Ivy-League mediocrities. The GOP is shitty, but it's a regular, recognizable political party. Sure, it's got plenty of scammers, but at a fundamental level? What did the GOP do, in and out of power? It thought about winning elections, starting at the state level. What did the Dems do? They gave each other jobs. When they accidentally got power, they dithered and compromised. People mock Trump's laziness, but what did Obama do in the first 100 days with a supermajority? Make some laconic comments?

So I will join you in fighting against the "normalization" of Trump, but I won't let you pretend the GOP is something new. The GOP is America's right-wing party. It has been for nearly a century. It is the Democrats who became something weirder. "For every vote we lose in central PA, we'll gain 2 republicans in the suburbs"? Lol. Sounds like a "communications" grift to me. Sell that shit to the under-funded non-profit down the road. I'm not buying.

Had Hillary been elected and trump went on to start trump news. Would there be republican super majorities in both houses by 2020? As bad as it is for the resistance, winning may have been even worse for the dems long term.

Had Hillary been elected and trump went on to start trump news. Would there be republican super majorities in both houses by 2020? As bad as it is for the resistance, winning may have been even worse for the dems long term.

I am wondering how the hell Obama left all that debt. Also, he was guaranteed bank during his 8 years and he couldn't get some speeches to raise that?

I never really understood how Republicans hate her

She's a woman.

The darkness was coming one way or the other. Had Hillary won, she would have done nothing against a galvanized Republican Congress that would have gotten even stronger in 2018, then by 2020, the Democrats, whether it was Hillary or some centrist no one gives a fuck about after Hillary had a stroke and died, would have lost to the Republican nominee, who by then probably would have been a jet ski dealer from Lake of the Ozarks with a swastika made of shit smeared on his face. When you think about it, of course Trump was always going to win. He wasn't going to steamroll the meticulously prepared Republican primary field, expose American politics as a worthless spectacle, and then lose soundly on a redux of the 2012 map plus-minus a couple swing states. This had to happen from day one.

I never really understood how Republicans hate her