Hence why David Sirota has no idea how to respond to me. He has to stick me in an ideological bucket to dismiss me rather than engaging with the actual empirical reasons that non-biased political analysts cite to explain Trump’s victory: celebrity, candidate weakness, and Comey’s actions. The data shows those were the factors, not bailout anger. But if Sirota were to deal with these facts then his entire political project collapses. He has to keep beating the drum that politics essentially began in 2008 and that the bailouts are the ur-sin of American politics that everything else is built around. He and other leftists just can’t help but oversimplify everything since they start with an oversimplified foundational assumption.