I hate to say 'I told you so' to my liberal friends and family after they dismissively blew off my warnings that Hillary Clinton was a fucking terrible candidate to nominate against Trump, and pretty much the only nationally viable Democrat who had a significant chance of losing to him - but I fucking told them so. Repeatedly. If there's a silver lining to this national disaster of an election, it's that maybe, just maybe, the Democratic Party has another chance in 2020 to embrace actual leftism instead of this watered down neoliberal Clintonian "third way" bullshit. Conventional political wisdom in this country has never been more divorced from reality. Running to the center is no longer the answer. The Democrats need to grow a fucking backbone and advocate for real progressive change from the status quo, not to try and convince voters that the status quo isn't so bad and just needs some slight reforms to help those who legitimately feel left behind by the Obama recovery. I'll never forgive Hillary for her deplorable, despicable political calculus in the primary season, when she started spouting off objectively false and thoroughly debunked right wing talking points against single payer health care, and turned against her own party's paid family leave bill because it would have required something like $5/month in tax increases on the middle class. Oh, and thanks to her aggressive advocacy of fracking during her tenure as Sec. State, there's an argument to be made that she is personally responsible for more total carbon emissions than any other human being on the planet. With friends like these, who needs enemies?
