First President-Elect Donald Trump appeared to have bullied Carrier air conditionining company to keep hundreds of jobs in Indiana that otherwise would have been moved to Mexico. Now he’s had similar success with Ford. Is it really possible that previous presidents could have stopped outsourcing of American jobs with a few phone calls?
Smooth Transition of Power
We keep hearing that Democratic officials are being polite and deferent to president-elect Donald Trump because they respect America’s tradition of smooth transitions of power. Given what Trump has said during the campaign, and the people he has appointed so far, however, that may not be appropriate.
Hillaryites Blame Their Victims
Progressives repeatedly warned center-right Democrats that Hillary Clinton was more likely to lose to Donald Trump than Bernie Sanders, that abandoning the progressive base to court Republicans (as Hillary did) was electoral suicide, and that the #BernieOrBust contingent would sit home on Election Day unless Hillary made significant concessions to the party’s leftist base. They were ignored and insulted and snubbed. Now, incredibly, center-right Democrats are blaming the progressives whose support they did everything to deride for Trump’s victory. If progressive support was important enough to cost Hillary the campaign, why didn’t she act like it?