Will we be smart enough to recognize and seize the moment? We can follow three issues to the recapture of government, but we'll have to do it fast and we'll have to do it correctly and we'll have to vow not to be derailed by incrementalists and pragmatists and it'll-never-happen folks.
Running around screaming at the horror of a President Trump!
Running around screaming about the popular vote and how in fact Hillary won!
Results of 2016
Hillary Clinton 59,814,018 - 47.66%
Donald Trump 59,611, 678 - 47.50%
Those that obviously don't count in their calculations
Gary Johnson 4,058,500
Jill Stein 1,213,103
Other 802,119
Total votes cast [as of today] 125,499,418
The international reactions to Trump's victory are very interesting.
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said:
For the Mathematically and/or Integrity Challenged:
Jill Stein (and her voters) are being blamed for causing Hillary Clinton to lose to Trump. Lets see if that is even possible. I used data from the Politico website...there are probably variations in the "official" vote total at this point, and if you manage to find one that is enough different from this one to make a difference, then I would like to see it. For now, I have gone through every state via the Politico website, and these are the results I found.
Over at TOP, this election was all about the racism and misogyny of Donald Trump.
But in the real world...
and liberals put him there.
Thomas Frank has a great article on the Guardian that everyone here will want to read.
A respected voice on a good platform excoriating the liberal establishment and calling out their BS.
Some brief highlights:
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