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Loser Psychopathology

Because

of course they do! Can you say, “Inability to introspect?”

When a political party loses an election, its supporters typically respond in one of two ways. There is, first, a constructive response: let’s figure out what went wrong and try to fix it so that the next time around we can win back the voters we lost in this election. There is an alternative response—that is, to blame the voters for “letting us down” and for lacking the good sense to elect our team. That is a childish response, thoroughly unhelpful, but it is one that many in the celebrity and journalistic wings of the Democratic Party have embraced.