People who believe the Clintons are running a child sex ring out of a pizza place.

[TwilightZone]

Are those the people we're supposed to be reaching out to? Trying to understand? Pandering to?

Or maybe it's people who believe Hillary personally started ISIS.

Or the people who want 12 million people deported the fourth week of January.

Or the people who want to round up all 3+ million American Muslims and put them in camps. Or worse.

Or the people who refer to Hillary Clinton as "that bitch" on another "progressive" website and get 60 recommends.

Or "progressives" who openly brag that they voted for Trump to "send a message". A message no one will ever understand or care about. Or even know about.

Or the people who repost every Breitbart, Newsmax, and Fox News story they can find on social media.

Is that our target audience?

I'm being ridiculous, of course, but the blanket statements that we are going to our doom because we refuse to listen to Trump voters en masse and that their sole reasons for voting for Trump are economic or anti-establishment are no less ridiculous.

We know why many Trump voters voted for Trump, and frankly, we're not going to convince a pretty big chunk of them of anything.

We no doubt have many things to learn from this election and need to continually look at our views and our message and refine them, as we always have - defining "Democrat" is an ever-changing (and rarely easy) process. But, we also need to ensure that we continue to fight for everyone and for our principles and not knee-jerk react based on faulty assumptions made after a particularly emotional loss.