Authored by Matt Taibbi via RollingStone.com,
Democrat Rob Quist was beat by Greg Gianforte in Thursday's special election in Montana
The story of Greg Gianforte, a fiend who just wiped out a Democrat in a congressional race about ten minutes after being charged with assaulting a reporter, is déjà vu all over again.
After crunching numbers for months, a group of Democratic strategists have finally figured out why Hillary lost the 2016 election: "her base didn't turn out." Sure, it probably had absolutely nothing to do with all those criminal FBI investigations or the fact that Trump was able to flip some Midwest states that haven't gone Red since Ronald Reagan. Per McClatchy:
If you listen to mainstream media for more than 30 seconds, you would think President Trump is in a world of his own as the entire nation turns its back on him. However, that would be 'fake' news as WaPo reports, in fact, the Democratic Party is viewed as more out of touch than either Trump or the party’s political opponents.
Despite the media's coverage of every protest, judicial objection, and politician bad-mouthing, Democratic Party favorability continues to slide...
Authored by Michael Hudson via NakedCapitalism.com,
The Democratic Party’s Death by Identity Politics
Guest Column by Michael Hudson
Read it. It is superb.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/46733.htm
Wall Street First
By Michael Hudson