Stephen Sampayan: Trump defeated social-elitism and a dwindling regional party

This election demonstrated the two Americas are not left and right. Instead, there are the controlling elites and those that make the country work. Elite Clinton enjoyed 80 elite newspaper endorsements, outsider Trump had five. Elite media cast aside objectivity by coordinating messaging with Clinton’s campaign to label left-leaners as the noble majority and right-leaners as sociopaths. Nevertheless, the Constitution prevails with the states granting Trump an electoral college landslide.

This win was not a one-time event. Since Obama’s “social-elitism” was elected in 2008, Democrats lost their way and slumped to their lowest point since the Civil War: 919 seats lost nationwide, only four states under their full control, Obama’s signature health-care law in jeopardy, and maybe three more “strict-constructionists” justices being appointed to the Supreme Court, moving it hard right. Potentially, court cases that left-leaners pushed might y be their undoing.

By following elites to their own peril, Democrats reduced themselves to a regional party by pushing a social agenda and neglecting those that make this country work. Worse, and to the country’s peril, elite radical Democrats and rent-a-mobs are driving wedges between left and right, roiling us from reuniting into the country we love.

This story was originally published November 22, 2016 at 12:04 PM with the headline "Stephen Sampayan: Trump defeated social-elitism and a dwindling regional party."