The disaster that we chose

The disaster that we chose: Distinctly Catholic: Donald Trump

MGB: This is Reagan all over again, without the capable handlers or the electoral experience. Could this have all been an act? It is possible, but not likely. Is he mentally ill or just amoral? We will see. If the latter, we may have Pence using the 25th Amendment disability in office provisions as a safety valve.

Trumps supporters know about and don't care about the irregularities in the campaign or in Trump's character. He is their savior - from what we are not sure since most of the programs they decry often benefit them directly. Authoritarians cultivate their victims that way.

What the Catholic left should have done was to double down on the child tax credit and to explain why abortion is not going anywhere in the Supreme Court - nor should it. Pluralism does not get you there and calling out the pro-lifers as another scam was the essential act that no one took (because it makes it harder to gin up NARAL - who would go for HRC anyway).

By the way, consumerism is what makes a middle class voting base possible - otherwise workers would become revolutionaries - which kind of happened while the Democrats were doing other things than look after workers. The only way to have prevented what happened yesterday was to nominate Bernie. With last night's win, unless Trump is a total idiot while governing, the GOP will be ascendant and there will be no schism in the Democrats that will create a workers party. Workers will have to organize by other means - which was always the case.