To begin to repair the damage done, they need to see not
that their way almost succeeded, if only one or two states had broken
differently. They must absorb the painful reality that their way cannot, will
not, ever work again.
So when it's over, Trumpkins, remember: You're not purging
us. We're purging you.
No more hate and reckless group blame. No more fact-free
fearmongering. No more feeding the obese ego of a man who's transparently unfit
for the job.
And after the party gets this philosophical poison out of
its system, it needs to re-professionalize the way it wins elections. You'll
see at the end of this race dozens of articles on how Hillary Clinton's team
took the amazing data science and voter contact architecture created by Obama
and enhanced it.
This wasn't rocket science; it's basic, professional
campaigning. While Donald Trump was retweeting "White Genocide 1488
Ovenmaster," Clinton's campaign was building data files and contacting
swing voters. While Trump was tweeting about "Crooked Hillary," she
was having precisely targeted television ads aimed at swing voters in the
suburbs of key cities in battleground states appearing at just the right moments.
While Trump was depending on red hats and WWE rallies, her people have been
going door-to-door by the thousands, knocking, talking, winning hearts and
winning votes.
I know Trump fans think of professionalized campaigning like
this: "We don't need you fancy smart people with experience and your
campaign discipline and your writers and polls and your computers and your TV
ads. All we need are hats and Trump's Twitter account. Hold muh beer while I
build a wall and make Mexico pay for it."
I feel his pain and truly hope the GOP becomes a real party again some day. I know the Democrats need a yang to their yin.
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