This reveals a rot that goes much deeper than Clinton, her managers, or even the elites in and around the Democratic Party. This is about a ruling class that has lost all sense of responsibility, all sense of ownership, for the nation it rules or aspires to rule. Contrast this sense of reckless, almost wild, removal from the consequences of their actionsthis refusal to accept ownership over the world they have created (you can think of that in narrow ways, i.e., the election, or in broader terms, the social disaster of this country)with the generation that created an international order after World War II. I don't say that in any nostalgic sense: those men were quite willing to destroy much of the more humane and progressive forces around the world. But they sensed that the world, not even simply the nation, was their responsibility. These people todayand this extends from one end of the Democratic Party to the other end of the Republican Partysee themselves and their fate as bearing no relationship to that of the country they govern. These are the real climate denialists.
