When you suffer a defeat, sometimes the only thing you can do is crawl into your dark place and stay there until you’re ready to come back out and get on with your life.
Understandably, many Democrats seem to be going through that process after Tuesday’s midterm elections resulted in massive gains for Congressional Republicans.
The GOP retained power over the House, took control of the Senate and further diminished President Obama‘s relevancy. That’s a lot to take in.
Here are five ways Democrats are consoling themselves:
Denying the election’s impact, as CNN’s Sally Kohn and MSNBC’s Joy Reid have done:
Changing the subject, as New York Times editorial writer Jesse Wegmantried to do:
Hating the game instead of the players, a la Democratic National Committee Vice Chairwoman Donna Brazile:
Searching for alternate sources of blame in a Ouija board-like fashion, as MSNBC’s Krystal Ball and Joy Reid did:
And on a somewhat more optimistic note, hoping the future is better than the present, like MSNBC’s Chris Matthews, Salon’s Joan Walsh, and the Rev. Al Sharpton:
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