1) Obama begins the long and protracted battle against gerrymandering and vote disenfranchisement 2) Republicans do as republicans do 3) Democrats run Kamala Harris in 2020 Here's the thing: I don't think the "red states" belong to the Republicans. I think the "red states" belong to anyone that can help the red states. The entire media narrative has been about these poor white folx in their shitholes in the flyover states vs. these not-poor white folx in their mcmansions and while very, very few can explain "neoliberal globalization" they certainly get the sense that (1) it's bad (2) Clinton is all about it. In theory, it shouldn't be hard for the democratic party to speak to the people at the expense of the elite. In practice, we trusted the adults to run this thing and the adults shit the bed.