"Brothers, You Asked for It"

It's Déja Vu All Over Again

“Lessons taught but never learned

“All around us anger burns

“Guide the future by the past

“Long ago the mold was cast”

Rush, “Bastille Day” (written by Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson, and Neil Peart, 1975)

“When a major political party suffers the scale of defeat the Democrats have (losing the presidency, the Senate, the House, and governor's mansions and state legislatures across the map), a period of private introspection and public circumspection is often helpful - as Churchill recognized after losing the 1945 election, telling his colleagues that the public didn't want to hear a word from the Conservative Party for a long time and he proposed to go somewhere and paint.”

Mark Steyn, “Advice for the Loyal Opposition”, “Steyn on America”, SteynOnline.com, November 15, 2016

Unfortunately, most of the “loyal opposition” have not taken Mark Steyn’s advice and have learned nothing from the last eight years.

Have any Democrats learned from 2016, or the years leading up to Tuesday’s humiliating defeat?

Yes. A dear friend in New Jersey shared a statement from Bernie Sanders (of all people) on social media that it is hardly surprising that a Democratic Party that abandoned the “working class” (his term, not mine) would be abandoned by that class. This is the kind of sober contemplation Churchill (and Steyn) discussed. Bill Maher, one of the few reasons left to watch television, has objurgated his fellow Democrats: “You’re brats, and you’re snobs, and people don’t like that.”