Your December 11 editorial “Bustos’ biblical assignment” made a lot of sense through the first four paragraphs. Then you quickly reverted to the tired, old Democrat playbook and brought out race. You wrote “in many cases he wrapped it all together with a bow of racial dog whistles, easy scapegoats for all the Rust Belt’s ills.” Later you opined that “Democrats can’t follow Trump in the racial abyss within which he’s taken his followers.”
Even your partner-in-crime, the venerable Washington Post, had this analysis on November 11 that was quite at odds with your knee jerk reaction. “There are different benchmarks one can use to see how Trump performed compared with prior Republican nominees. Comparing yesterday’s results with 2012, as this Washington Post feature does, shows that Trump actually performed slightly worse among white voters than Mitt Romney did. He did, however, perform better than Romney among blacks, Latinos and Asian Americans, making it more difficult to claim that racial resentment was the dominant factor explaining Trump’s support nationally.” (By Karthick Ramakrishnan — November 11).
I am reminded how in recent years the Democrats have instructed us that Republicans will never win the White House without accepting the Democrat position on immigration and a whole host of issues. Of course Democrats wanted to help Republicans…….off a cliff!
I am happy to see the same Democratic Party leadership return to power in Washington. Cheri Bustos may help with the “rural” optics, but the party is going even farther to the left.
qcconservative 