The election results have come in and the Republicans have won a royal straight flush: President, Senate, House (probably), Supreme Court.

Once again, the Democrats are being accused of having “lost touch” with the working-class and young voters. This is puzzling. Flawed as they might be, which party has championed Obamacare, child tax credits, getting big money out of politics, supported unions and public schools, and proposed government investment in affordable housing? Who tried to raise taxes on the super-rich and corporations in order to reduce inequality and the national debt? Who brought down prescription drug prices and tried to assist young people with crippling student debt?

Who supports a woman’s right to an abortion following a rape or when her life is in danger? Who has tried to put some limits on the sales of semi-automatics? And which party is even willing to recognize that climate change poses a deadly threat to rural people and is seeking ways to mitigate its effects?

Meanwhile, the Republicans have sought to block every one of these commonsense proposals. The Democrats are “elites,” while Elon Musk and the crypto currency salesmen who supported Trump are Average Joes. “Heads I win; tails you lose.”

Whatever else, the Republicans now have all the keys to the kingdom so they can’t blame the Democrats if they don’t make America great again. Oh wait, Obama was somehow to blame for the Great Recession even though it was well underway before he was even elected. Perhaps it will be the Nobel Prize winning economists who have predicted rising inflation and national debt with Trump’s policies who will get the blame this time around.

Well, Mr. President, good luck with that “concept of a plan.” Let’s hope it works out.

Peter Pfeiffer

Solon