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As a Democrat I have great pain in the results of this year’s elections.
I hear all the handwringing and talking heads theorizing about the messaging that went so wrong. That is what it should be. What it should not be is blaming the corruption or failure of our election system, or poll officials, or the other party’s cheating, for our loss.
So, it occurs to me that the Democrat Party’s gift to our democracy is showing how to lose. I hate that idea and know the Republican response to this insight is — yes, that is the best contribution the Democrats can always make. When you lose, you congratulate the winner, transfer power peacefully, and look for learning on how to compete better next time.
In every political race, someone loses after a hard-fought contest that matters to all Americans. That is the reality of our political system. However, if the political equation is, “Heads I win. Tails it’s rigged,†there is no congratulating the winning party, no peaceful transfer of power.
