re: #359 Interesting Times

It’s far more complex than that. He was never going to reach the willing fox-news brain-slug victims, but through his futile and quixotic quest to “work with” a psychopathic GOP congress, he left other voters disillusioned (like someone else I know, who said things like “Why didn’t he fight harder for Merrick Garland?”)

In many ways, it’s the same kind of crap that sank John Kerry - the “he didn’t fight hard enough against GOP attacks, therefore the Democratic party is useless and we might as well not vote” mentality.

We can play all kinds of what ifs. But to some extent, if you know someone who was disillusioned and therefore didn’t vote, even in the face of Trump, I would posit the problem was not with Obama.

Nobody gets everything they want in politics. Democratic voters in particular seem to need to understand that lesson and fast, and stop riding their damned purity ponies into defeating themselves.