When The Machine Breaks
9th February 2017
Sarah Hoyt looks at the current scene.
At any rate I don’t remember exactly what I said anymore, but it went something like this: the left fed the right coins into the machine — the fundraising for Hillary was astonishing — and pulled all the right levers, from a press more than fully in the tank (to the point of getting the debate questions ahead of time to the Hillary campaign and also of BURYING her many scandals, including Benghazi, the financial shenanigans of the Clinton foundation, and the crazy server-in-the-bathroom stupidity), to celebrity endorsements, to more or less helping the Republicans select the candidate the democrats thought least likely to win against Hillary. Fraud to the extent it exists (It did in massive galloping amounts in the precinct I watched in 12.
The polls, cooked or not, were no more cooked than in 2012, and they showed a blow out. EVERYTHING WAS GOING SO WELL.
And then the machine broke. Instead of the planned, prepared, pushed Hillary presidency it delivered Trump.
Right now, from pussy hats to riots, the left is reacting like teenagers who did everything right and for whom the vending machine failed to deliver what they purchased. So they’re screaming, and trying to push the machine and slamming it against the wall, trying to get it to dispense the treat they bought.