"...it is clear as day that the political left has lost the ability to explain itself to a majority of the American people...."

The all-knowing left deserved what it got, a defeat. They allowed a lot of people's anger to be put into the wrong hands, Mr. Trump's. Instead of taking the invisible and obscure majority seriously, the left politely ignored them or condescendingly took them for granted, pretending to have sympathies for them (for their needs, their anger), which they never really felt. So smug! Then to bring entertainers to rallies (like Beyoncé, Jay Z and company), in order to "convince" the public to get on board, only made the majority into cultural rebels and outliers from principle. Hillary and her strategists deserved what they got, a defeat!