Virginia went blue but Pennsylvania went red

Depressing, but not surprising.

The white working class has utterly lost its senses, driven into the arms of a party that would reduce them to slavery by lunatic preoccupations with race.

Years of mocking and angry propaganda on the left that the GOP had become the white people's party while the Democrats had become the party of everyone else is now also all but openly the propaganda of the right.

And it has now become pretty much the fact of the thing, with the Buchananite takeover of the party's leadership and of the White House.

Most white men, most white women, most educated whites, and most uneducated whites, most whites over 65, and even most poor whites, all voted for The Duce.

The wife and I survive on Social Security, Medicare, and savings that have been just adequate.

We both have chronic medical issues that cost us thousands every year, thanks mostly to the donut hole in Part D.

I cannot help but dread what the Republican radicals in the congress and Trump will do to us, both by wrecking entitlements and by undermining the value of our savings through damage to the economy.

Elections have consequences.

Sometimes we all pay for the fecklessness of others.