> Will anyone remember all the crying wolf on the next go-around? Yes - a large part of the reason Trump won is that people who haven't drunk the kool-aid are

> Will anyone remember all the crying wolf on the next go-around? Yes - a large part of the reason Trump won is that people who haven't drunk the kool-aid are sick of being told that they're deplorables who are imperiling the future of civilisation (see elsewhere on-thread). With all the hysteria, name-calling etc. from the Democrats, I'm not sure that this lesson has been learned yet. ESR wrote about this in depth here: http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=7268 http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=7268 "While these words point at some real problems, they are also a trap. They lead you to organize your political pitch around virtue-signaling, exclusion and demonization. That, in turn, can be successful (though repulsive) politics when it’s used against a minority to mobilize a majority or plurality. But you’re in the opposite situation now. You were trapped by your own privilege theory. You demonized a plurality of American voters, and in return they gave you Trump."