The U.S. Has Found Something Worse Than Trump

Yes, Trump is a horrible human being. Yes, Trump’s policies are horrible. But as I’ve written previously, Trump isn’t the problem. There’s a problem worse than Trump, and the U.S. has just made that problem worse.

“Feckless” is a good word, meaning weak, ineffective, and worthless. “Feckless” is the perfect word to describe the election campaign run by the Democratic Party this year. There are two ways of looking at the Democrats’ feckless campaign: they are either spectacularly inept or they deliberately lost. The latter is in the realm of conspiracy theories, a realm I avoid, so barring evidence of conspiratorial tanking, we have to accept that the Democrats are weak, ineffective, and worthless.

Why is feckless the right word?

Running against Trump was like playing against a last place team who just lost half of its starting line to injury. The Democrats may eek out a one-point victory for the White House, but they fell well short of their goal to capture the Senate, LOST seats in the House, and performed weakly across the board in state elections. But The Squad won: more on that later.

Why did the Democrats fail?

That’s the right question and that’s the thing that’s worse than Trump. There’s a term that’s underused in academia and largely unheard outside of it…