This Is No Time For Progressives To Get Wobbly
After a loss like this in the presidential election there's obviously going to be a lot of soul searching and blaming that goes around. It's only natural.
But what we can't do is get all wobbly on what it is that we stand for.
The American people didn't reject progressivism or its values.
This election was not about any policy idea, whether it be economic, social, foreign or otherwise.
If it was then some of these white working class voters would never have voted for a man bereft of knowledge, ideas, the willingness to learn or how to even form basic sentences.
Progressives do not need any soul searching on how "we" need to be nice to alt right voters and reach out to them so that we attract them into our tent.
That's a fool's errand.
We don't have to find a new way to reach racist, sexist, xenophobic people that reject any form of intellectual honesty.
It's impossible.
Refuting endless war, raising the minimum wage, equal economic distribution to all of Americans, strengthening our social safety nets and rejecting any form of privatization of those forementioned are sound ideals.
It's like the media deciding to play both-siderism because they didn't want to be criticized for being biased.
No matter how the media covered this election, they would always be attacked for being liberal partisans, out to get conservatives.
Backlash politics is what they live and breathe.
Why bother?