Will the Democrats learn from this election?
A Republican official I know texted me that question after the Trump victory on Tuesday. Then I saw an article with Bernie Sanders asking the same question. Today I saw a clip of Marianne Williamson, who ran against President Biden in the Democrat primaries, making a similar point. Each raising the same question perhaps but each suggesting the answer should be different. To me there were two lessons to be learned from this Election and I question whether the Democrat party and their members will learn either. The first lesson was that the American people don't want progressive ideas like open borders, economic policies that cause rampant inflation, Green New Deal rules that drive up energy costs and eliminate good paying blue collar jobs, paying tuition for kids who are now doctors or lawyers, or who take useless degrees like art history or English at expensive colleges. The people don't want a weak foreign policy that results in multiple wars around the wo...