A note to some people who are finally calling for everyone to join together

[Ghost OF Trotsky]

154. We failed to show up

Plain and simply we didn't get out the vote.

Was sexism a factor- sure

was racism a factor -sure

was celebrity and the fact the our arrogance made us underestimate someone who might be unqualified to lead but knew how to ENTERTAIN a factor -yes,

The people calling Trump 'dumb', 'ignorant', 'a buffoon' and his campaign 'disorganized' or 'a train wreck' were as bad as any fifth column or cadre of Russian hackers.

Too many in the media and the DNC made the fatal mistake of not discerning the difference between someone who could COMMUNICATE with ignorant dumbshits and the someone who WAS one. That was my nagging, annoying theme for months- Trump is not stupid, and he's 100 percent ethically flexible. He and Kushner and Bannon were quite happy to have 538 give him a 10 percent chance, and probably encouraged Hillary's campaign to dismiss their sophisticated operation as a clusterfuck with no GOTV or 'ground game', all the while targeting every dollar exactly where needed to pick up electoral votes.

And now were doing the same shit. This guy ain't stupid, he knows how to hire people to do the job he wants them to do. Underestimating your enemy is foolish and anyone who doesn't see how precisely his tweets and other media actions are calculated to fuck with our heads and keep us off balance, who continues to dismiss him and his team, on the tautology that only someone dumb or incompetent would even work for him, is part of the problem.

But fundamentally, in my opinion, it was failure to get out the vote. If registered Democrats had voted, we would be eagerly anticipating Hillary's inauguration.