S.E. Cupp: Democrats Have Only Themselves to Blame for Trump

Pundit S.E. Cupp���s piece over at the New York Daily News may not fully explain the victory of Donald Trump, but it certainly details one important piece of it.

Here���s how it begins:

���They have no one to blame but themselves. Democrats have lost up and down the ballot, and at a time when President Obama is well-liked and Donald Trump is not.

���But for nominating Hillary Clinton, Democrats may suffer a wave election. And they deserve to lose. She was deeply flawed coming into this election. Anyone but Donald Trump ��� the woman-hating, everyone-hating candidate should have propelled her to victory. But Democrats were so busy protecting their deeply flawed candidate that they never considered someone could beat her.���

I have been saying this since it first began to look like a Trump vs. Clinton showdown in November. Most people I know who support - or ended up supporting ��� Trump did so with some reluctance. They weren���t ���all in��� on The Donald, but Clinton, for all of the now-well-documented reasons, was simply a non-starter for them.

What many casual observers are getting wrong is thinking that everyone who voted for Trump did so with great enthusiasm, and with loads of affection for Trump himself.

They did not. Many voted for him because the only other major-party option was no option at all.

It did not have to be that way for Democrats this year, but they cannot help themselves.

When Jim Webb, the former Democratic senator from Virginia who also served as Secretary of the Navy under Reagan and was awarded the Navy Cross, Silver Star, and two Purple Hearts for his service in Vietnam ��� and who also tends to hold more socially liberal ideas without being unhinged - considered competing this time around for the Democratic nomination, he was essentially chased from the field by other Dems before the race even started because his values did not match their lunacy. A guy like Webb, had he found himself the party nominee this year, may well have sailed over a Donald Trump into the White House, but the heavily-agendized elements of the Democratic Party prevented that from happening.

Those of you who are garden-variety Democrats can gripe about Trump all you want, but I would suggest that those who do also cast a bit of a thoughtful, introspective eye toward not only the reality of their own deeply-flawed candidate, but to a party line that is replete with its own, significant elements of intolerance and indecency.

By Robert G. Yetman, Jr. Editor At Large