Insomnia Returns, Clarity is the Result

This is for my fellow Democrats and members of the Global Economy.

Hillary won the popular vote and lost the Electoral College because last minute deciders in the Rust Belt went overwhelmingly to Trump.  These last minute deciders were traditional Democrats who have felt abandoned by the Democratic economic message.  The ironic thing is President Obama tried to help some of them with infrastructure spending that was not approved by the GOP led Congress. So it will be a horrific statement on GOP partisanship over the good of the country if Trump proposes and the Congress approves plans for infrastructure spending.

But that is not my primary message.  Democrats need less change in actual policy issues they support than they do a change in messaging.  This election from the Democratic side was focused on civil liberties and equal rights.  I care about those issues, but as a former President Clinton once said, "It is the economy."  Hillary did not champion the economy and her "deplorable's" comment, while in a speech that was otherwise respectful toward these people who care 1st and foremost about their economic interest, contributed to a perspective within those rural people that the members of the global economy around the big cities do not care about them and do not respect them.  That needs to be changed if the Democrats are to win the Electoral College.