DEMOCRATS won because our campaigns were focused on the American people

...but I heard a load of bull this afternoon from the person who saddled America for over a decade with Sarah Palin after choosing the loud-mouthed drunkard to run with McCain, promoting the view that Democrats didn't win because of their message, but because of the dementia-ridden, befuddled fool in the White House.

I get that this whiny, never-Trump republican has made a career out of pretending she's not responsible for ushering in every lying plank of the present republican platform, complaining about 'big government' and a demagogic representation of liberals which she still conjures up when it suits her as a wedge against the majority of the Democratic party.

It should be understood that this erstwhile republican is pining for a party that regularly campaigned on eviscerating the tiny fraction of trillion dollar budgets that went to, and still represents the entirety of the federal government contribution to all of the programs for the poor that her republicans have managed to make so controversial against the only party in this mostly binary system of elections whose members have ever cared to represent the less fortunate among us against the interests of the wealthy and well-connected.

I mean, it's either she repudiates all of that 'bootstrap' fuckery from Ronald Reagan, who she reveres, as he cut the legs out from under a generation of working-class poor who mostly came from, and still come from states that regularly vote for these same republicans to take those things away from them; or she advocates in favor of those things DEMOCRATS provided with initiative, advocacy, and votes.

She's literally one of those elitists who worked overtime to convince their own rural poor base of voters that the federal government and the liberals who were trying to provide things for them were threatening their 'freedom,' ffs, and that their employers not only deserved their cheap labor, but they should return a chunk of their hard-earned pay back to the government to pay for tax breaks for their bosses and CEOs of their companies they work for; the old 'trickle down' which is still the base of their economic philosophy of rewarding the already wealthy with the slick con that our jobs depend on keeping that money flowing to the rich politicians and their wealthy friends.

Republicans don't even talk about jobs anymore, except in Orwellian headfakes like the president's claims that the economy is booming in the wake of an election where voters made clear that it is not. The entirety of the republican effort right now is to insist on just taking things away from Americans while gleefully insisting they're repudiating Democrats.

In so many ways, republicans are hurting ALL Americans, not just Democrats; not just half of the country that identifies with the party and votes with them.

But in so many ways, it's is absolutely true that republicans have been opponents of these things they're taking away and withholding from Americans with such zeal and arrogance; just as Democrats have been the primary defenders of these issues and concerns for decades and decades - all the while that republican demagoguery, scapegoating, and outright thievery of the Treasury for their own personal enrichment has been the entirety of the republican platform as they whine and moan about the piffle that the poor receive and mock recipients for being 'dependent' on taxpayers' OWN hard-earned contributions to government, taxes which these very same legislators engineer laws to for their rich selves to evade.

There isn't a 'media party,' thank gawd, so whatever this party-lacking journo is pretending voters showed up to the polls to vote for was either the party taking things away from them, or for the party that has provided those things for them.

Most of them were never friends of the people; as much as they served as cynics posturing against the very things they're lining up this week to defend; the very things their past politics pretended weren't essential or vital to people in this country, just to the Democrats fighting to enact them.

...the okey-doke goes something like this lede at the start of one of these news broadcasts today:

It's really something to listen to this hand-wringing from past-republicans about their own party's responsibility for the Democratic landslide; and completely ignore that their entire effort has been to reverse programs and benefits Democrats almost solely provided for Americans with their initiatives and their votes.

The losing politics today that former flunky Flake is alarmed about is actually the heartless and cruel government he and his fellow republicans advocated for in the past; fighting against the efforts and advocacy of Democrats working to invest in more than just tax breaks that just further enrich the already wealthy.

There are no 'conservative principles' which provide for anyone in America other than the wealthy and the well-connected. Their defense of the 'already haves' against the 'have nots' defines their entire economic dogma. It's the product of people who don't do their own shopping, and don't have a clue about what it takes for most Americans to survive.

Conservative principles up and left the building earlier this year after the republican Congress passed $2 trillion in across-the-board cuts to federal spending over 10 years, but raising the national debt and deficit by some $328 billion dollars, in most part to fund Trump's tax cuts.

When Democrats are in power the nation progresses, but somehow the solid record of job growth and economic progress Joe Biden accomplished was presented as some sort of hat trick, instead of a result of the policies DEMOCRATS advocated and implemented.

Hell, despite the attempts by journos to guilt Democrats into taking blame for the shutdown, clearly republicans own it; especially after Trump gave the game away and told his party leaders, who control BOTH houses of Congress, to end the filibuster themselves by a simple majority vote and move on.

Never-Trumper logic reasons that republicans and Trump lost ground in the election due to their own fecklessness, which is certainly true. But these republicans pining for their own party back have had every plank of their conservative ideology and platform repudiated by the blundering maga muppet in the White House who's enacting all of their past decade's deliberate lies and feignts like they're trying to stop an outer space invasion using an old Star Trek movie set.

I get that these republicans don't know shit about the Democratic party, and won't acknowledge Democratic action and initiatives they've been regularly ignoring all along.

But if you're a former republican running a media show that's been crying crocodile tears about a concern for the poor that you've never admitted until now is one of government's most important responsibilities, you might want to ask yourself how all those things Trump and republicans are working to take away from Americans right now got there in the first place over your past party's objections.