The idea party leaders are responsible for losing this election is brain-dead. There is already a political party that steals from the poor to give to the rich, poisons the planet and brazenly lies to voters. If that's what's needed to win elections, then we could all just join the Republican party instead of trying to be more like it. Republicans have become very intoxicated with their electoral successes, buttressed by dirty tricks like Nazi-like campaign ads from anonymously funded groups and gerrymandered districts. There is little that would lead anyone to believe they can actually govern and their adherence to fantasy economics and what Martin Wolf, the Financial Times columnist, describes as “pluto-populism, policies that benefit plutocrats, justified by populist rhetoric” has put them and their supporters on a collision course with reality. Either the marks will eventually wise up and stop voting for these frauds, or they won't.