It Is Always Heartwarming To Have One's Opinions Justified.

 Although Michael Podhorzer's How Trump “Won” hits on the national election, he makes a point that I have been trying to get across about Indiana for decades: there are more voters out there who could change politics than what political parties have been able to draw into elections.

I recall hearing William F. Buckley, Jr. decades ago saying that these voters acquiesced in elections, as if they agreed with them

Today, I hear Hoosiers say that their votes do not matter because it is a Republican state. I hear that thinking in the following:

But that diagnosis completely misses the life-threatening illness America is really struggling with: a billionaire-captured system that doesn’t work for most people, and justifiable disaffection and anger at this system. Americans are fed up, and people are perpetually in the mood to throw the bums out, whoever the bums in charge are. But with only two parties to realistically choose from – plus a democratically illegitimate Electoral College that makes most Americans’ presidential votes all but irrelevant – all of these “change elections” add up to little more than a seesaw that most Americans don’t want to ride in the first place.

I have too often called the Democratic Party feckless; until now, that has not been a real danger.  Indiana's Democrats have too often played the game of Republican-Lite, as if that will get them elected. Or maybe it would keep the Republicans from being too hard on them? Time has come today for the Democrats to figure otu what they stand for and to change business as usual.

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