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And as the country anticipates a second Trump presidency with hopes, with dread, with ambivalence, depending on who you are,

one thing that happens after a big

margin election like this is that the party that lost begins a reckoning. Do you remember in 2012

after President Obama's first two years in office, Democrats took what Obama called a shalacking

in the midterm elections. Control of Congress flipped from blue to red, and Republicans

took control of around 19 state governments. I think it was 19. So a humbled Obama went before the

nation and said this. A couple of great communicators, Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton, were standing at this podium

two years into their presidency, getting very similar questions.

Because the economy wasn't working the way it needed to be, And there were a whole range of factors that made people concerned that maybe the party

in power wasn't listening to them.

Maybe the party in power wasn't listening to them.

Obama in 2012, acknowledging that maybe he lost touch with the voters on the economy.

Though, as he also pointed out,

the party in power when voters are feeling economic pain often takes those kinds of hits,

regardless of party. So what kind of Democratic Party reckoning needs to start today?

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