And ideologues in the Republican Party are more than willing to toss out meaningless platitudes and appeal to people's fears to gain seats.

— Brian Sweeney (@briswe) November 14, 2016

And ideologues in the Republican Party are more than willing to toss out meaningless platitudes and appeal to people's fears to gain seats.

— Brian Sweeney (@briswe) November 14, 2016

Hoping that shaking up the system would somehow make their lives better.

— Brian Sweeney (@briswe) November 14, 2016

Rust belt states are voting against the political parties not for a particular ideology. It started with the Tea Party, continued with DJT.

— Brian Sweeney (@briswe) November 14, 2016

Rust belt states have been hurting and they're voting Republican not so much out of ideological agreement but to give as bad as they've got.

— Brian Sweeney (@briswe) November 14, 2016

DJT certainly attracted a racist component, but I think the real force for him was the disaffected rust belt working class.

— Brian Sweeney (@briswe) November 14, 2016

But truly I believe any typical politician would have had trouble. DJT did so well exactly because he wasn't typical.

— Brian Sweeney (@briswe) November 14, 2016

Certainly HRC had perceptual issues, not all of them justified. The lower tally in her column seems to bear that out.

— Brian Sweeney (@briswe) November 14, 2016

Post-election analysis on the Democratic Party is whether it lost from moving too far to the left & whether HRC was a poor candidate…

— Brian Sweeney (@briswe) November 14, 2016

The election is over, but the sentiment still holds. https://t.co/OiGuNi53hs

— Brian Sweeney (@briswe) November 11, 2016