2016 Postmortem

I was in the doctors office, orthopedist so there were a lot of injured miners and working people and I was listening to the conversation.

Workers feel like Trump is in their corner and will fight for their jobs.

They feel like democrats are only for minorities and don't care about the economy much.

I'm not sure that Trump can deliver on what these people are projecting on him. In some ways it's a lot like how people had such hope in Obama.

However I worry that if Trump is able to create the impression he's fighting for the working class, and he's certainly trying with this tweeting about companies, it's going to be a real hard thing for the Dems to fight.

When the economy tanks again due to these tax cuts and deregulation that are coming we need to be ready not to just win by snagging people pissed off, but we need to develop an economic policy and pimp it to stay in power long enough to stop the country from going down the tubes.

I feel Obama has turned around the economy, but he did not toot his own horn enough and also due to the severity of the crash it's taken to the end of his presidency to reach it.