Let's hope the Boston Marathon bomber is a white American.
The reality of politics is, if Trump is the president tonight, every progressive group in America will be able to mobilize in a way tomorrow that they may not necessarily have been able to mobilize yesterday.
However, white male privilege means white men are not collectively denigrated/targeted for those shootings - even though most come at the hands of white dudes.
Most often the electorate votes for change.
Hillary Clinton did not represent, on a lot of policy matters, what the American public perceived to be as a change.
In America, we are living in a country where the deep economic problems have not been solved and arguably, in many cases, haven't been addressed.
Typically in politics it is easier for the left to mobilize against a Republican president than it is to mobilize against a Democratic president, even in the cases when the Republican president or Democratic president are pushing the same exact thing.
At what point do [progressives] take off our partisan blinders and start wondering whether a very powerful faction of Democrats actually continues to SUPPORT President Bush and the War in Iraq?
