Some Democrats are waking up in bafflement and confusion at what just happened to them. Obama's abuses of executive power and the media bubble they were living in made it seem like their destiny was here. History was on their side. The GOP was a party of losers. But somehow this party of losers had dominated statewide races and Congress. But it didn't matter so long as they had the White House.
The potent combination of media echo chambers and Obama made it easy to ignore the defeats. But with the loss of the White House, some are walking out of the illusion and surveying the wreckage.
They've lost the White House, Congress and the Supreme Court. The Democrats are truly a minority party. And the GOP now has the potential to seriously nail down the Supreme Court and make huge policy changes that will reverberate for generations.
What the hell happened?
The answer is easy. The left happened.
The left hijacked the Democratic Party and turned it far to the left. It went so far to the left that Hillary Clinton, once well to the left of the party, was considered right wing, and a Socialist who wasn't even a Democrat, nearly beat her for the nomination.
The Democrats went far to the left. The country didn't.
The Democrats gave the left the keys to the car and they trashed it. Obama leaves a Democratic Party that has been thoroughly hollowed out in the name of scoring successes for various left-wing policy agendas.
The Dems though need to ask themselves whether freeing terrorists from Gitmo, drug dealers from prisons and imposing transgender bathrooms was worth the cost of losing America.