Never insult voters; that should be the first rule of politics. Hillary Clinton broke that rule by calling Trump supporters “deplorables” and “irredeemable.” She may have lost the election at that very moment.
In this commentary, Mike McCabe of BlueJean Nation explains how Democrats nominated exactly the wrong person at the wrong time. Meanwhile, Republicans may have made a classic deal with the devil, swapping essential pieces of the party’s soul for temporary supremacy, and the Democrats refuse to acknowledge they have a people problem.