I don't know if anyone else feels this way, but instead of

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63. Many feel the same way

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It's a holiday season so many people try not to read news but focus their attention on their family friends. After all, feeling down and depressed is not useful.
The issue is not that Hillary lost but that it was Trump who won. In retrospect, the universe was against us trying to win a third democratic term.

The even bigger issue at hand is that it seems that the Democratic Party is moving in the wrong direction which will likely result in futher congressional and state losses during the midterm elections. Instead of learning from the loss, we're doubling down on the same message.

It is true that Trump needed white supremacists and closeted racists' support to win, many of those creeps don't vote so he tapped into some new voters. However, he would not have won without former Obama voters (his both terms voters even) and many of Sanders supporters. The republican strategy is very obvious - they want to indifentely lock the electoral college with states they won with the possible exception of Florida which he didn't need to win. This means republicans will do anything to deliver in Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Iowa. This also means maintaining white majorities in those states by driving minorities out. I beleive democrats need to be working hard in those states on grassroot levels starting from city level politics. Instead, we are getting Pelosi again and not Tim Ryan who actually can connect to voters in those states. I also want to emphasize that Trump won mainly because of his hardine stance on terrorism and immigration.

The inconvinient truth is that Americans including majority of democratic voters do not want an increase in refugees and support immigration law enforcement which Obama was particularly succesful at.

What made me feel better is the realization that ,sometimes, history will just have to play itself out. We may speculate all we want, but I highly doubt that Hitler could have been prevented, maybe delayed. So it will likely become much worse before it gets better but we are all in this together. Suffering is part of life, unfortunately.

We need to learn how to compromise. We achieved a lot under Obama so we may need to learn how to compramise on some issues so they don't reach the new ultra conservative supreme court which will simply undo all of the progress by creating precedent.