It’s like getting the ball underneath your opponents net, being wide open, and missing the tying basket. Gotta love the Everyday Joe & Jane. Hard working people, but my God they can’t recognize the opportunity when it’s in front of them.

At least they’ll help make history by getting Hillary into office; so the DNC can now claim to be the party to have the first (half) black president and the first female president, all under a decade’s time. The GOP? Nothing. Three elections straight with a possible re-election of Clinton in 2020. Let’s not mention Scalia’s “moderate” replacement. Now that’s a double punch in the private.

“Cause Donald wants to make America great again!”

He’s a venomous, narcissistic, thin-skinned, infantile, crude, ill-informed, lying, bullsh*tting assh*le. Is that clear enough for you?

I knew that and said so, one of the first of anyone on this list, because he’s a real estate guy, and I’ve dealt with many of them over a nearly forty-year career.

He has only one virtue: he’s slightly better than Hillary Clinton.

The results have only defied predictions from the folks whose perspective is limited to a traditional electoral frame.

For observers who’ve understood the activist character of the situation – participatory politics subsume electoral politics – it was obvious the alt-Right activists that are the creative engine of the Trump phenomenon conferred a critical advantage over the GOP campaigns that lacked essential activist support.

Republicans should have learned the essential need for activism from the 2012 presidential election. Romney was the superior presidential candidate by traditional electoral standards, but President Obama won re-election due to superior activism.

Instead, Republican campaign strategists studied the Obama campaign, which was secondary, and deluded themselves that electoral campaign aspects like “data driven ground game” were the key to Obama’s victory.

Had the alt-Right insurgency not usurped the GOP nomination with the Trump phenomenon, the superior, the emergent activism-deficient GOP candidate most likely would have been defeated again by the inferior, but activist-sufficient Democratic candidate.

The Trump campaign has been a joke by traditional electoral standards. But critically, unlike the GOP, Trump was shrewd enough to learn the real lesson from the 2012 election and allied with alt-Right activists, crude, unsophisticated, ‘jayvee’, but sufficient to exploit the same activism deficiency on the Right that is regularly exploited by the Left.

It’s disappointing that Republican campaign strategists utterly failed to pick up the need for activism from the 2012 election. But it’s downright amazing that even as the activist character of events grew glaringly obvious during the 2016 GOP nomination race, most conservatives and Republicans continued to misinterpret the situation with a clearly outmoded traditional electoral frame of reference.

Nick:
“So, now what do we do?”

Recognize the activist game is the only social cultural/political game there is. Participatory politics subsume electoral politics.

To avert political obsolescence and begin to compete for real, conservatives must collectively adopt a competitive activist mindset, adapt an activist skillset, and organize collectively as a zealously vigorous, permanent, full-spectrum social activist movement – distinct from the GOP.

Once you make that switch, it’ll be a new game because there’s no such thing as permanent defeat for activists. There is only social dominance or insurgency.