“Bernie would have won” has become a natural rallying cry for supporters of the self-proclaimed democratic socialist from Vermont. To conservatives, like the Weekly Standard’s Jay Cost, the simple moral is that “while people still like Obama, they haven't much cared for his policies - and time and again they have taken their frustrations out on his fellow partisans.” Many left critics of Obama-era policies claim the same thing. It’s tempting to blame the man at the top - Barack Obama, whose own approval rating just hit 56 percent. Paired with Donald Trump’s Electoral College victory, that means that the party whose champion won the popular vote - and whose outgoing president delivers his farewell address Tuesday - lies right now as a smoking pile of rubble. They’ve lost 62 House seats, 12 governorships, and 958 seats in state legislatures. Their share of seats in the United States Senate has fallen from 59 to 48. Over the past eight years, the Democratic Party has lost a mind-bogglingly large number of races across the country.
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