@blatham,
I've encountered many efforts to evade disagreement over concrete issues and instead to convince others, and perhaps also yourself that those you disagree with are not to be trusted, heard or are merely the stooges of another agent, but this is one of the most stark .... and ridiculous.
We're confronted with Hillary's rationalizations for her loss as a result of misogyny, the general stupidity of voters, and a Russian conspiracy; the intransigence of Democrat leader in the Congress who similarly refuse to accept the outcome; .... and now this kind of journalistic crap. The inability of Democrats, their candidate, legislative leaders, ....and now their journalistic sympathizers, to come to grips with the stark fact that they lost the Presidential election, multiple seats in the House and Senate, Governorships in about seven states and many seats in state legislatures across the country, all in an unusual, pervasive rejection by voters, is truly stunning. Denial of this depth and persistence in an ordinary person is a significant psychological disability. Such denial among presumably seasoned and responsible political figures is shameful.
Now to encounter this exaggerated denial among their journalistic claques and rationalizers is somehow a fitting, almost poetic punishment for the nonsensical group values they peddled with such alacrity. They finally have become the victims and chief consumers of their own propaganda. And their conclusion is that
'disfavored groups (white males in this case) have been manipulated by unseen, evil forces and s rendered unable to see the supposed wonderfulness of Democrat policies and candidates' !
It's hard to make this **** up, and harder still to believe that supposedly rational people , like the author and those like yourself who distribute it, actually believe it.
I'll give you an alternative explanation. Voters were moved by perceptions of incompetence in an increasingly intrusive government; concerns about a slow growth economy and a government apparently unable to se its own role in slowing it down; a candidate who had demonstrated marginal competence, untruthfulness and an unwillingness to accept accountability in public office, and who campaigned as a champion in opposition to a supposed "war on women".
