Rather than face up to the fact that Hillary Clinton had little appeal outside of Goldman Sachs and whatever the Project for a New American Century is called these days, Democrats cursed Sanders fans, third-party voters, and non-voters with a hatred usually reserved for vegans. Since they can only imagine their own upper-middle class lives orbiting major urban centers, the loudest Democrats think that everyone who's not exactly like them is a racist, woman-hating cretin, and hope "that they be educated and moved to the vicinity of the major hubs in the northeast and western parts, that they die off [or] that a country would attack the United States and obliterate them." Rather than actually learn anything of substance, liberals are did the only thing their politics really involve: sharing and commiserating over an extremely circumscribed set of insipid pop-culture references that flatter them and insulate them from reality. Those leftist critiques of Obama or Clinton that do manage to penetrate this fantasy-world get angrily dismissed as right-wing media conspiracy theories or Kremlin propaganda. And finally, as with any good whitewash, liberals pretended that Donald Trump represents something totally alien and uniquely menacing, as though Obama didn't do everything Trump says he would.