"Wall Street Democrats failed us." The establishment Democrats have failed the American people."

[BainsBane]

30. They succeeded in defeating the corporatist Democrats

Trump won. They got exactly what they wanted. The Democratic Party and it's corporatist voters earning under $50k a year have been shut out. The women, elderly, poor, and people of color who voted for Clinton have been put in place and will be punished for daring to exercise their voting rights as they see fit. The anti-Democrats got what they wanted. This is exactly the kind of rhetoric that helped Trump smear Democrats, and these are the people who voted for Trump or a third party candidate to teach the Democrats a lesson. The anti-"corporatists" successfully stood up against Hillary and her proposals to get dark money out of politics and appoint SCOTUS judges amenable toward repealing Buckley and Citizens United. The anti-Democrats rejected that reform and decided the problem was die not to the law but an absence of personal virtue. If they couldn't have a Democrat who enriched himself off the campaign to the tune of $10-14 million dollars, they wouldn't have anyone. They decided that policy didn't actually matter, that Scotus appointments were irrelevant, and that they would organize against the one major party candidate who ran on regulating Wall Street and reforming campaign finance. And they were victorious. They wanted to bury the "establishment" Democrats, and they did just that. Now they get to witness what the "anti-establishment" government they helped elect looks like. Yet even in victory they complain. Talk about a bunch of sore winners.