2020 is a long time away. But the Democrats are determined to lose that, too. I think they actually want to lose, because failure and loss is where their strength lies — it’s more productive for them in a lot of ways to be the ever-defeated underdog, protesting party — as in the George W. Bush years — rather than dominant. (No, I don’t mean that in a metaphorical sense. I think they deeply and truly do want to lose. It makes them more powerful than winning in many ways.)

No lessons to learn, according to Drum and other Dem ass-ignorant idiots. None at all.

Democrats are still telling themselves the “demographics are on our side and soon winning will be inevitable!!!!!” fairy tale that I’ve been hearing since I started reading Newsweek when I was 10 years old.

That was 30 years ago.

The human need for protecting identity seems to be stronger than any other drive in most people. It rules over all other urges, even survival. These days you have Dems believing in Russian mind control conspiracies and other things that in the past only the wackiest of Area 51, gray alien types would’ve bought into. Yeah, it’s a post-truth world, but it’s one with the Dems firmly at the head of the long, long queue.

This election has been more instructive as to human frailty and unsuitability for rational thought than all the Arendt and Adorno and Baudrillard I’ve ever read.