Although I'm not a total fan of the writings of NYT columnist Frank Bruni, his take on the election and the Democrats problems is worth reading. HRC among her flaws as a candidate (and her party too it must be said) failed to reach out to the Rust Belt whites in any meaningful way. They were outside the "Blue Wall" and knew it. They also knew the sneers they got from both elite conservatives (National Review, with its "go rent a U-Haul and move" you losers) and more so, urban or educated progressive types, munching their kale salads and sipping their organic smoothies.

Add in the false narrative of national total decline and the racially explosive meme of white male victim hood (which some campus activists with their identity politics indirectly stoke) and you have an electoral college explanation. Democrats will now rue the fact that they gave up the basic stuff about running for school board or water board, and are now an ineffective opposition outside coastline America.