2016 Postmortem

In reality, every state in the country is purple to some degree, but we insist on labeling everything blue or red.

That leads to the assumption that places like Texas, where there are a lot of population-dense areas that are very blue, is uniformly red. And, places like California that have large swaths of conservative voters (much of inland CA) are uniformly blue. I'm not sure why so many make those assumptions, but they're very common. We then use those erroneous assumptions to bash people over the head.

We also tend to forget that politics is cyclical. We'll win future elections, because that's just how it goes in politics. We'll also win future elections in part because the GOP is quickly getting outnumbered demographically, which is why they rely so heavily on voter suppression and mind games. If we could find a way to increase and then stabilize turnout, while countering voter suppression tactics, we'd be tough to beat on a national scale for the foreseeable future.

Of course, those are harder to accomplish than they sound.