Post Election Recap

[BigEarl]

Sheer ineptitude is the real cause of Hillary’s electoral implosion. It isn’t sexism, racism, the FBI, or fake news, or the Russians for that matter which cost Hillary Clinton the presidential election. Clinton’s loss was not produced by a bad decision here or there but by a torrent of brain-dead choices made throughout the campaign.

Though many things have changed in American political life over the past couple of years, one aspect remains a comforting constant: Liberals never lose an election. Not fairly.

Unquestionably, elections can be stolen. Americans can be misled. Big Oil or Big Business can purchase elections – because these institutions possess the preternatural ability to control human actions. Voter always fail to understand what’s good for them (which, amazingly enough, always aligns with the state-expanding goals of the Left.) Whatever the case, something fishy and nefarious must also be going on, because there’s absolutely no way voters could reject Democrats.

From the night of Nov. 8 onward, political coverage has been dominated by a series of conspiracies to explain the election of Donald Trump. Never acceptance. Always denial.

• Comey was responsible.

Since the election, liberals have coalesced around the idea that FBI Director Comey’s letter informing Congress that the bureau had found new evidence relating to the criminal investigation had irreversibly changed the election. Many Democrats accused the FBI director of attempting to win the election for Trump. Democrats seemed to believe their candidate should be protected from news of her own doing. Clinton, was the one who used a secret server to circumvent transparency. She sent unsecured classified documents on that server. She attempted to destroy the evidence related to this investigation. She even lied to the American people about it. And Clinton was nominated by Democrats, who never seriously entertained another candidate.

• Fake news

Sensing the fabricated apprehension regarding the proliferation of “fake news,” Hillary joined the fray by claiming it was rampant in America. The fake news epidemic of 2016 is a variation on a long-held liberal notion that people are easily manipulated by conservatives. This is one of the reasons Democrats are interested in banning political speech by overturning Citizens United or passing a Fairness Doctrines or handing control of the Internet to the government. Fake news comes in many variations, though, and no one is innocent. At one point, more than half of liberals believed that George W Bush knew about 9-11 before it transpired. And since most of the media treated Trump as if he had absolutely no chance of winning the election, this unfathomable turn of events has to be explained by something.

• The Russians are coming.

Now, as we’re shifting into our Russia Panic phase; the CIA – or at least one leak from the CIA, as of now – claims that the Russians had attempted to interfere in the election to assist Donald Trump. This seems wholly plausible, considering Trump’s favorable view of Putin, and should be fully investigated. There’s still debate among U.S. intelligence services about the Russian hacks, but that hasn’t stopped some Democrats from questioning the patriotism of those who refuse to accept their own hysterical version of events. Paul Krugman, before ever seeing the evidence, has declared the election illegitimate. (Electors pretending that 2016 was stolen for Trump are at least demanding to see the CIA report.)

Unless the Russians morphed Hillary Clinton into an unlikable, ideologically malleable, corrupt, inveterate fabricator over the past 30 years, the claims that the Russians stole an election should, like all other phobias this season, be treated with a giant dose of skepticism.