A Facebook friend posted the following to a comment that slammed him when he commented, “Darwin is Smiling” after a picture of a family taking pictures of a mine that washed up on the beach.

Please allow me to retort! The electoral results last November have been repeated enough that most people in politics know them by heart. Republicans now control 68 state legislative chambers, while Democrats only control 31. Republicans flipped three more governors’ seats last year and now control an incredible 33 of those offices. Since 2008, when Barack Obama first took office, Republicans have gained somewhere around 900 to 1,000 seats overall.The unspoken subtext of a lot of the Democrats’ excuse-making is their growing belief that the situation is hopeless – and not just because of fixable institutional factors like gerrymandering, but because we simply have a bad/irredeemable electorate that can never be reached. The “deplorables” comment didn’t just further alienate already lost Republican votes. It spoke to an internal sickness within the Democratic Party, which had surrendered to a negativistic vision of a hopelessly divided country. Barack Obama, for all his faults, never gave in to that mindset. He continually insisted that the Democrats needed to find a way to reach lost voters. Even in the infamous “guns and religion” episode, this was so. Obama then was talking about the challenge the Democrats faced in finding ways to reconnect with people who felt ignored and had fled to “antipathy toward people who aren’t like them” as a consequence. How’s that for being political? You’re right in a way, Darwin is laughing at the Democrats, Democratic Socialists and the like.

The author is former military, a highly trained IT professional, and a rancher. If he gives me permission to name him, I will do so with an edit.