2016 Postmortem

Interesting.

But let's be clear. This is not not hateful. It's just honest, And honest talk and assessment are exactly what we need to move forward. The Democratic Party has spent years chasing around after white blue collar Trump voters and keep getting sand thrown in our faces. In the meantime, while we're running around after those voters, the voters who have been loyal and will vote for us in overwhelming numbers if only given the chance are ignored and taken for granted. And what makes it worse, is that a primary reason that the voters the Dems keep chasing unsuccessfully are voting Republican is BECAUSE of those black and brown people. It's insulting and painful for us to stand here and watch Democrats not only coddle and explain and justify those votes but insist that we should double down and try HARDER to get those people to vote with us - when the only way to get them to vote Democratic is for Democrats to kick minorities and women and immigrants and Muslims to the curb.

So you can call it hate, if you want. But that accusation only highlights the very problem. You probably don't even realize the irony and insult of you being so quick to accuse your fellow Democrats of fostering an attitude that you refuse to acknowledge is actually driving the people who are voting against our interests. You accuse us of hate for calling out people who knowingly turned the White House over to the racist darling of the Ku Klux Klan and Aryan Nation, while defending those very people and insisting that their actions aren't hate or bigotry but just the result of their being frustrated and left out and demanding that we try even harder to understand their concerns and embrace them to our bosom.

Perhaps if you showed even a fraction of concern for your fellow Democrats feelings and concerns and expended some of effort to reach out to THEM that you are spending on understanding and reaching out to the folks who purposely gathered on the racist side of the political spectrum, we'd make a lot more progress.