Congratulations Democrats, progressives, liberals, SJWs and triggered Millenials. Donald Trump has just saved you. No longer will you be shackled to the corpse of the Clinton Crime Family for the next 8 years. Now you are free to select a candidate who actually supports your agenda and cares about your values instead of someone who merely wishes to enrich herself financially by selling off America to her corporate cronies.

YOU'RE WELCOME!

Heidi, if you are going to report on the markets it's good to check the what they are actually doing. Look at the Dow and Nasdaq before you post. Be a good reporter.

@2...telling someone at The Stranger to be a good reporter. That is rich..really rich.

Dow is up 169 points currently. And here MSNBC was crying that the markets would completely crash this morning. It's Brexit replayed once a gain.

Former officer Witlatch will find a job with one of the new federal deportation squads, I'd assume.

Dear Murray: Now clear - Those federal $$$ you are insisting are necessary to resolve our Homeless State of Emergency will not be forthcoming for at least the next 4 years. Dear O'Brien and Sawant: Local voters said no to the ACLU-inspired 'it's OK to camp in parks" homeless legislation and you were completely caught off guard by the degree of rejection of Seattle citizens. Denial of voter attitudes isn't going to work (see last night's election).

So now what Murray and Council? What is the path forward on addressing homeless needs and related citizen outrage in Seattle?

Below is what I have been telling people who ask me what happened in regards to Trump, why he won.

The racism, sexism, homophobia, etc,. isn't primary for most people. It's a knock off effect.

In order to understand what happened you have to understand something about the democratic party throughout the 20th and 21st century.

For most of that time the Democrats were the party of minorities and labor. However, as of around 20 or 30 years ago the Democrats shifted away from labor and towards dot com types. App developers, that sort of thing. The problem was that labor was a HUGE constituency that nobody was speaking to.

Until Trump.

Another factor is that globalization was routinely marketed as having no real downside for decades, all the way back to NAFTA. The problem is that globalization actually does have a negative impact that is disproportionately felt by, you guessed it, labor, in particular labor in rural areas because most small towns depend on a single industry or institution unlike cities which, due to trade and a higher population, can absorb the impact of losing a factory.

Now, there are two more things on top of that.

The third thing is that around the late 90's there was a massive campaign on the part of drug manufacturers to market a new brand of pain medication, marketing it as non-addictive directly to doctors. Through a tragic set of circumstances that created an epidemic of opioid addiction that more often affects, you guessed it, white working class men in rural areas.

The last, and this is frankly the weakest reason, was the loss of respect. Most rural labor has felt disrespected and(honestly) kind of freaked out for decades now.
All of this has two effects.

The first is that non-college educated white men are dying deaths of despair at a rapid and increasing rate.

The second, is Trump.

Links available upon request.

Democrats snatching defeat from the jaws of victory once again (and a mere decade after the fiinancial crash) but hey, we will soon hear from the usual suspects how it's all the fault of stupid and there is nothing to do about it but reappoint the same crew that would rather lose to Trump than elect Sanders.

@7,
To be honest, I don't think Sanders would have won either. Trump got elected by enraged white men in rural america. They weren't going to vote for the democrat no matter who it was. Right?

@6: Or maybe NAFTA wasn't as damaging as "everyone" says it was.

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/…

The problem isn't that NAFTA did this or that. It's that people are TOLD that it did. The people who voted for Trump: do you think they researched the economics of trade deals? Or did they just say, "Trump says I'm right to be angry"? He held their hands and stoked the fire.

Help. I'm in despair. Communal grieving? Can we have a code word or phrase so we know who we are?
Isis, Aleppo, Mediterranean refugee drownings, Great Recession, all curtesy of Bush/Cheney etc. The world changing effects are of course long lasting. I shudder to think.

@9 Trump was elected by only ~27% of registered voters some of whom are very sympathetic to an anti-corporatist message like Sanders'. There is also another 73% who could have defeated him if only they had been motivated to do so. This is what I said on Slog this September: "Clinton's best chance is to run like a progressive by taking the lead on issues like TPP, health care, climate, etc to motivate a high voter turn out but we know that probably won't happen so hold on to your hats."

@10: Basically.
@13: Ah yes, the myth of people who just weren't MOTIVATED to keep Trump out of the White House. I'm sorry, if that lofty goal wasn't enough for them, Bernie Sanders wouldn't have magically inspired them to show up either.