There was a discernible shift in political discourse in the past decade, and not for the better. There was a time when politicians would focus their attacks on their opponents and only their opponents.
The voters were out of bounds. And rightly so. Any good politician will acknowledge he or she is likely going to need those voters, and their votes, down the road.
I think it's safe to say that rhetoric changed with Barack Obama. The supposed great uniter, Nobel Prize winning figurehead behind Hope and Change.
He was the one who, like all good adherents to Alinsky, 'picked the target, froze it, personalized it, and polarized it.' And that target was half of American voters. We were, as you'll recall, 'bitter clingers' who liked our guns and our Bibles and were just holding America back, gosh darn it.
Ever since Obama made it
de rigueur to attack the voters, the gloves were off. Hillary Clinton called us a 'basket of deplorables', Joe Biden called us 'domestic terrorists', and Kamala Harris called us 'Nazis.'
But the Left can only cry wolf so many times before the villagers stop showing up. And last week, the villagers ignored those cries and elected Donald Trump by solid margins in both the Electoral College and the popular vote.
I like to learn from the mistakes I make. I reflect on them, figure out what I did wrong, and strive to not repeat those errors. It helps both professionally and personally and that's where growth happens.
I am also not a Leftist. And if there's one thing I've learned during my time being elbows-deep in politics it's that the Left is incapable of that same introspection, reflection, and growth.
So they keep calling voters stupid, hoping maybe it'll finally browbeat us into compliance:
