How the deplorables broke Hillary Clinton and the Left’s glass ceiling, by Paul Sorene.

White working class Americans were just another problematic special group in a top-down, divisive, barrier-building, illiberal, condescending narrative guffed out by a coterie of know-alls under whose wings these lesser people – Latinos, blacks, gays, Muslims and women – could be protected, cosseted and above all kept in their place. Hillary wanted to smashed a glass ceiling. She represented an elite that doesn’t allow the great unwashed to see that high. …

Salon notes: “President Trump: A colossal failure for democracy, and our terrifying new reality.” No. Still not getting it. Democracy won.