During the primary, when Bernie Sanders still had a path to victory, I overheard a table of four talking politics at Demos Restaurant in Watertown. When I was leaving, I asked who they were supporting.

Two of them laughed at me, and two condescendingly shook their heads. I said, “Hillary can’t beat Trump. He’ll eviscerate her.” More condescension.

I was told that they were four of The Boston Globe’s finest.

The reason I’m writing? I ask the journalistic, academic, and political classes of the Democratic Party to take a long, hard look at themselves. Their relentless advocacy for Hillary Clinton and ridicule of Bernie Sanders escorted a badly flawed candidate to the Democratic nomination. Now we have President-elect Donald Trump.

Maybe next time the Democratic elite and intelligentsia won’t “help” us so much?


Greg Trimble