2016 Postmortem

They want to believe that the old factory jobs are coming back (they won't). They want to believe that we'll reopen coal mines and put miners back to work (we won't, and shouldn't), and they want to believe that brown-skinned people are taking the few good jobs left and/or that the brown-skinned people are sucking the country dry through government benefits (they aren't).


Trump is willing to tell them those lies. Democrats (for the most part) are telling them a more realistic story: The old ways are gone, we need to adopt a new way. So, on the one had, they have a bombastic orange man telling them they can have everything they want and that everything they believe is true. On the other, they have a bunch of kill joys telling them they will have to eat their broccoli.

TBH, the only way I see out of this (without become shameless liars ourselves) is wait for the bombastic orange man to let them down (he will).