In the days to come, there will be many discussions of how Donald J. Trump ascended to the presidency. Just at a glance, many factors come to mind: the economic straits faced by much of America and the Washington elites' failure to address such problems, the Democrats' nomination of the one candidate Trump could actually beat, and lingering resentment among some white people of the presidency of Barack Obama.

Daily Kos front pager Denise Oliver Velez, however, has a simpler explanation for what happened: racism. People did not vote for Hillary Clinton because they hated African Americans and Hispanics. That simple.

For those who have the temerity to suggest that if the DNC had nominated a different candidate for president, they might have won, Oliver Velez has this to say:

This movement of ugly angry white people and their deluded not-white lackeys should be a wake up call to you all.

You can keep on posting diary after diary on how this loss is Hillary’s fault, Obama’s fault, Markos’ fault, black people’s fault, latinos fault — but in the end it ain’t gonna change things.

You can keep fantasizing about Bernie woulda... coulda.

Nothing will change till the white left decides to embrace anti-racism and anti-misogyny.

Got a message for you.

Denial is not a river in Egypt.

My Gut Reaction: Wake up, Denise. This past election was the Toilet Bowl, and you backed the turd that sank.

Analysis below the fold....

to hire the likes of Bernie Sanders as an advisor with some power.

I voted for Stein, but I recall the days of old when the Donald was more liberal. The one thing I think we can do is to call upon him to provide a more balanced coterie. He has been inundated by freaked out Republicans for the past months, so he is ready to hear our message.

...is intense. Not joy, but a feeling of deep relief.

Kind of like the feeling you'd get if you witnessed some really bad person, whom you have long felt tremendously threatened by, is stopped cold from continuing to threaten you by someone you don't like either, but who threatens you less.

And, it's getting uglier...Trump just moved ahead of Clinton in Pennsylvania.

My advice: Go over to Orange State and make a statement by rec'ing THIS POST. (Try not to get yourself banned in the process of doing same; if you haven't been banned there, already.)

A couple of comments from yours truly over "there," last night, and over the past hour...

The clip below is about 4 minutes long. It says a lot of what I've been saying for the last 20 years. The clip stops before Moore goes on to make the case for Hillary (or so I'm told). But watch it. Powerful stuff. But the corporate media tells the masses that the only choice they have is between the Dem and the Repub.

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKeYbEOSqYc]

Professor Cohen is one smart cookie.

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