During Obama's presidency, many Democrats protected vicious state practices such as massive surveillance, torture, targeted killings, and imprisonment without trial.

Not all Democrats accepted these practices, but enough did so that we missed the chance to make it hard for Trump to use them.

Paul Ryan wants to eliminate Medicare.

Republicans depend on the votes of older Americans — I see some hope that this plan can be stopped. However, it will be harder to stop the plans for tax cuts for the rich.

Twitter bots had a large effect in manipulating and undermining political discussion between humans in the US.

Whether or not they favored Trump this time, and no matter who they favor in the future, this is clearly bad.

Forget "Why?", It's Time to Get to Work.

It was Clinton's own plutocratic nature that brought the election within stealing range for the Republicans,

Remember when polls showed Sanders had a better chance than Clinton against Trump? Sanders might have won by too many votes for the Republicans to steal.