After the Morning After

First, an admission: I have more questions than answers about what just happened to our country. What I know pales in comparison to what I don’t. I do have a few strong beliefs, however, based on where visible bread crumbs lead me.

I don’t believe for a second that half the voting population chose to join a cult—wittingly or unwittingly—or that half of voters were eagerly awaiting the earliest opportunity to bring an American version of Hitler to power. I believe that when presented a choice between a horribly flawed something and much of nothing, a frustrated majority opted for something.

The Democratic Party faces a reckoning whether it likes it or not. The party knows what it is against but either doesn’t know or won’t say what it’s for. It either lacks the imagination needed to conjure a vision of where America should head and what our country has the potential to become, or lacks the courage to proclaim it.

With America’s working class feeling insecure, vulnerable and forgotten, the…