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Is it me or are the media missing one of the critical backstories of the 2016 presidential election?<\/p>\n

It goes like this … I believe.<\/p>\n

Right up until Election Day, the media were reporting the\u00a0pending demise of the once-great Republican Party. The GOP, media types reported, was in need of an extreme makeover. Their presidential candidate was about to get creamed by Democratic nominee Hillary Rodham Clinton.<\/p>\n

Batten down the hatches! A storm was a brewin’ within the Republican Party ranks, they said.<\/p>\n

Then a funny thing happened on Nov. 8. The GOP presidential nominee won. Donald J. Trump collected enough Electoral College votes to be elected president of the United States of America.<\/p>\n

What the … ?<\/p>\n

Now it’s the Democratic Party<\/em> that’s in need of that makeover.<\/p>\n

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The candidates for Democratic National Committee chair are facing searing, probing questions about how they intend to lead a party in near-panic.<\/p>\n

Clinton lost the election. Democrats failed to win the U.S. Senate majority they anticipated getting; nor did they make any substantial gains in trimming the Republican majority in the House of Representatives.<\/p>\n

This remarkable turnaround occurred within a span of, oh, about seven or eight hours the night they were counting the ballots for president.<\/p>\n

Polling now suggests that the next Democratic Party presidential nominee should be someone few of us have heard about … another candidate as unknown as, say, Jimmy Carter needs to take the stage.<\/p>\n

It well might turn out that Republicans might regret lining up behind a candidate such as Trump, who seems to lack any fundamental core principles that guide him. He once was pro-choice on abortion; now he’s pro-life. He believes gay marriage is now the law of the land; many within the GOP believe quite differently. He thinks free trade is a scam; Republicans\u00a0embrace<\/em> free-trade policies. And, oh yes, we have some conflict-of-interest matters to slog through.<\/p>\n

I’ll stop there. You get the point.<\/p>\n

But, hey. The guy won! Elections have consequences, eh? Oh, brother, do they ever!<\/p>\n\n

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