Sweeping up, as if folded laundry into gunny sacks before flight.

A charming bright analyst appoints and confirms himself as a shitlib.

JD Scholten: How Dems LOST Rural America, Can They Get It Back?

The analysis isn’t bad, but at the very least incomplete. Things start to fall apart badly halfway through, when he starts nattering on about how the Dems are losing the war for hearts and minds on Facebook. No. No. Please stop this … I wanted to like you.

The full enormity of it hits at a minute before the end of the interview, when Krystal has to ask him again, because the question was too cognitively dissonant for him the first time.

“Why does middle America hate you Dems so much, JD?”

It’s the echo chamber, he says, flailing.

See there’s this county in Iowa that went for Obama. But then eight years later, it went Trump, 71% … we have to ask ourselves what happened in the between time, right?

(Yes, JD. DO go on … )

Well, what happened was the rise of misinformation on social media!

The rubes lie to their relatives on Facebook, see, and their relatives lie right back! So everyone ends up hating the Democrats! That’s how Trump happens!

You fucking tool. You’re either being willfully ignorant, just flat evil, or you’re on board with the crypto truth that which party controls which part of government is meaningless in the end, except for your consulting fees, because they’re serving the same masters either way.

The reason the heartland hates the Democrats is that OTHER thing that happened in the Obama years. OBAMA. And his lies. And his Wall Street cabinet. And his failure to raise the minimum wage or care about main street at all during the crisis he walked into at the start. And it only got worse and worse from there.

The heartland hates the Democrats because the Democrats lie to them and have been for two generations.

Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, any waste of human space you care to name on the R side–they lie too of course. But they don’t pretend to be the friend of the working man. They don’t pretend to care about the millions of people being left behind as the whiter parts of the coasts grow fat as leeches at the tits of the Machine.

The Dems are the betrayers. JFK cared. Even LBJ cared, some. Jimmy Carter cared too much. Bill Clinton and Joe Biden preened about Little Rock and Scranton and threw the little people of flyover country right under the Big Systemic Bus. NAFTA alone. Mandatory minimums for nonviolent drug offenses alone. Repeal of Glass-Steagel, all by itself. But no. There was more, and more, and more, until the shit hit the fan when the liars propped up the pantsuit corpse of Clintons past and said, Here, Murica. Swallow this shit, heh. What choice to you have?

Well, they had Trump, so they took him.

And more of them voted for him the second time than the first. Joey B quirked out a win this time because of a few electoral college anomalies swinging the other way.

And here comes The Consultant, blaming it all on that damn Facebook.

Because he can’t afford to face the simple fact that his party is co-opted and corrupted from the inside out. There’s no money at all, in that opinion.

As for the asker of the question, Krystal-Ball, I love you.

But letting him get away with that steaming satanic shit was not your finest hour, girlfriend.