Why are Republicans older than Democrats? Because it takes awhile for life to beat the stupid out of you, that's why. - Bill Whittle

There was a time when intellectual meant someone who uses reason and intellect. Today, people who call themselves intellectuals are in a form of mental death spiral: they search for, and find, those index cards that support their world view, and clutch little red books like rosaries in the face of all external evidence. They are ruled by appeals to authority. Their self-image and sense of emotional well-being trumps any and all objective evidence to the contrary.

[The Democratic Party] is a criminal enterprise that would rather rule over the ruins than be part of governing a happy and successful Republic.

Being the champion of the working man against the corporations is the reason for the Democrat Party's existence. For them to lose working class Americans to Donald Trump is not that the Democrats have a problem in terms of election, but in terms of identity.