KOOL AID, KOOL AID, TASTES GREAT.

The cope from the left flank of the Harris coalition is amazing.  "What Went Wrong."  Note how the column begins.

Various pundits have blamed just about everyone in North America for why Harris lost, especially Harris. She went too far left. She didn’t go left enough. Blah blah blah. I don’t fault her or her campaign, which I think was brilliant. But I see now the deck was stacked against her in many ways, and her being a woman of color was just part of that.

The best thing I’ve read so far about the election is by Rebecca Solnit at The Guardian, Our mistake was to think we lived in a better country than we do.

Losing skippers blame the crew.  So of course Barbara "Mahablog" O'Brien continues to campaign for a job with the consultant class by getting in on the deplorable-shaming.  We could see that coming two weeks ago.

Psephologist Nate Silver recently posted "24 reasons that Trump could win," quite possibly in sadness rather than anger, or perhaps to stir up his fellow establishmentarians to do something right in the next ten days or so.  Town Hall's Matt Vespa honors the work. "I do like Silver calling out the uber-left, hyper-condescending Democratic consulting class who are so weird they don’t know how to talk to real people."

But Becky isn't done slagging on the Normals.

Young men seem particularly vulnerable to its offerings, and many dank corners of the internet recruit them into misogyny and white supremacy via influencers and incel subcultures, into antisemitism and conspiracy theories, and more than that into becoming unmoored, destabilized, unwell, isolated.

The Maga right with its indifference to the normal issues of good governance and its preoccupation with clickbait distractions is an online monster and it has succeeded in creating a more angry, aggressive form of masculinity, one more convinced that debasing and dominating women is essential to its identity, whether in porn or in Trump’s fantasizing aloud that Liz Cheney should face a firing squad and Harris face Mike Tyson. The endless memes of Trump as Rambo and rescuers and Jesus show how much the lost boys and Maga women want an authoritarian leader, and the fact they can make one out of the physically and mentally pathetic Trump is a testimony to the power of tech-fueled fantasy.

It's so much easier to make light of the bros, the better to put influencers in woman-face on Bud Light cans, than it is to recognize that "inflation coming down" still means "higher prices" and "open borders" means burdens on the communities so invaded.  Becky, though, has weird notions of who the damaged people are.  "They appear to be deeply damaged people and they have come to damage everything else, including the climate; human rights, especially women’s rights, trans rights and immigrants’ rights; and the US economy."

Then comes Jeet Heer (No, I ate at McDonald's) who at least sees that the Professional Managerial Class screwed things up.  "This Time We Have to Hold the Democratic Party Elite Responsible for This Catastrophe."  Specifically,

The key to understanding the Trump era is that the real divide in America is not between left and right but between pro-system and anti-system politics. Pro-system politics is the bipartisan consensus of establishment Democrats and Republicans: It’s the politics of NATO and other military alliances, of trade agreements, and of deference to economists (as when they say that price gouging isn’t the cause of inflation). Trump stands for no fixed ideology but rather a general thumbing of the nose at this consensus.

The main fact of American politics in the post-Obama era is that an ever larger majority of Americans are angry at the status quo and open to anti-system politics. Trump won as the candidate of anti-system anger in 2016. In 2020, he suffered the liability of being the status quo even as Covid was ravaging the world. But by 2024 he was able to return again as the voice of change, bolstered by the fond memories many Americans have of the economy under his presidency—and of the temporary, but generous, expansion of the welfare state under Covid emergency measures.

That amuses Power Line's Steven Hayward. "I can hardly think of a better and more succinct statement of why Trump became necessary, and why he won."  Note, though, that he is of the class of scribes who slag on the corporatist Democrats for not pivoting more to their jihad-loving, boys-in-girls'-sports advocating, vegan environmentalist wacko fringe.

The Kool-Aid stands have only begun to pour.  Disaffected Biden voter Sasha Stone notes the many flavors that will be forthcoming.

They think they still speak for all of us but their ability to do that ended long ago. Now, they speak only for those still trapped in an elitist bubble that only wants Trump to go away.

This isn’t going to be an easy fight. This is only the beginning. For the Left, the fight is existential. This is, to them, about their survival, as a movement rooted in identity, one that nurses victimhood and punishes merit-based success.

So they will blame Elon Musk and his purchase of X. They will blame Joe Rogan and RFK, Jr. They will blame Vladimir Putin because supposedly he is Tulsi Gabbard’s puppet master. They will blame men for being sexists. They will blame the American people for being biased against a woman of color, even though Kamala Harris was placed in the position of winning just because she was a woman of color.

They will somehow blame the Electoral College, the Supreme Court, and Tucker Carlson. They will blame Joe Biden, who does deserve some of the blame for engaging in the corruption that has brought down the empire. The only people they won’t blame are themselves.

It’s never going to be about how they pushed the American people too far, how there will be a generation of girls growing up with scars instead of breasts, weak bones and their fertility taken from them before they had any idea what was happening. There will be boys who have been effectively castrated and will have to live that way for the rest of their lives.

It’s never going to be the ten million people flooding the border, many of whom were not fully vetted, and many of whom were dumped into small towns with the residents shamed for worrying about their own lives.

It’s never going to be their rising authoritarian lawfare that did nothing for them but destroy trust in government, the DOJ and our criminal courts while only turning Trump into a folk hero.

It’s never going to be what they’ve done to a once-thriving culture rooted not in equity but in opportunity. I think of the stories that haven’t been told, the movies that haven’t been made, the dreams that have dried up and faded away. And all for what?

Let the restoration of a state of good repair continue.

Let the likes of Mahablog and The Nation and The Guardian choke on their hatred.