Here's the best article I found so far this morning. It's from Erik Erickson of The Resurgent

An Open Letter to the Democrats

We have found common ground on much this election cycle in our shared opposition to Donald Trump. This morning we can find common ground on accepting Hillary Clinton is a genuinely terrible candidate.

Your opposition to Donald Trump came from your belief that he was too radically right and my opposition to Trump came because I belief he is not really a conservative. You and I will continue to disagree on much.

What you are experiencing right now is far more traumatic than what the GOP experienced in 2008. By the end, we knew McCain was toast because of his campaign suspension stunt, etc. This was, for you, close to our 2012, and you now, like us then, treated Nate Silver badly this time around. He was, again, more right than wrong.

But here’s the thing — in 2008, Republicans, myself included, freaked the hell out over Barack Obama getting elected. I said many terrible things I regret and for which I have apologized. Don’t be like I was then. The internet is even more forever now than it was then.

You wanted us to wish President Obama well then. I hope you will wish President Trump well now. I have always, even when I genuinely could not stand the man, respected President Obama as my President. I hope you will do the same with President Trump.

Our nation depends on our moving past disagreements and working together as Americans. Many of you said as much in the past week when you thought Trump would never win. I hope you will continue to believe it.

We are not always going to agree. Sometimes the fights will be intense. But at the end of the day we’re all Americans and we all have a vested interest in the success of our country.

This morning you expected to witness the break up of the GOP. I did too. Instead, we are watching your party implode. There but by the grace of God go I. I got much wrong in this election and a lot of it stemmed from failing to relate to those who are hurting most in our society. Instead of condemning them and labeling them all bigots and racists and deplorables, I hope you will try to relate to them, connect to them, and recognize their legitimate concerns as I must do too.

Don’t be who you think my side is. Behave as you wish we would. If I can model humility in the face of staggering wrongness over this election, I hope you can too. And remember, everything really is going to be okay.

This nation, in it's relatively short history, has survived a revolution, a Civil War where 620,000 Americans died, two world wars, a sufferage struggle, a civil rights struggle, a struggle for LGBT rights, several economic depressions, and recessions.

We can survive Trump.

Well, I see things are rather calm here, no heads exploding. With all his flaws, the working people came out in droves to prevent the most corrupt, criminal candidate from becoming president. The Republicans can blame themselves for Trump being the nominee, his basic political platform and policy statements were in sync with the concerns with the working class. The Democrats can blame themselves for selecting a candidate who is so despised by so many people including a lot of Democrats. Then you can blame the MSM who threw away any objectivity and clearly showed they have a complete bias for Clinton. The working class is fed up with being lied to and swindled by the elites and came out to vote for the candidate who is the antitheses of that. While I won't hold my breath that the country will begin a new renaissances under Trump, I hope he's able to turn things around because under Hillary, I see a country run by an Al Capone type crime family.

Well Fred, you had me until the last sentence. So, those who oppose Obama's policies are racists haters? I see where you're going with that. Add you and those like you who are to blame for Trump winning.

TheLagerLad wrote:

I had no idea how much the election Barack Obama must have deeply pissed off and galvanized the under informed and under educated white males in this country.

One of the things Democrats and liberals are going to need to do to get back into the good graces of rural white males is to stop calling them under informed and under educated.

Early election results show that Clinton kicked ass in the cities. Didn't matter what part of the country.

But Trump won the suburbs and rural areas of the country. And won by a lot. 

So we're at a place now where the divide isn't between the north vs. south, or the coasts versus the heartland. It's urban vs. rural.

The Dems, if they want to have the white working class come back to them, are going to have to figure out a message that resonates with people outside of the big cities. 

Lager, this I can agree with.