RICHARD FERNANDEZ: Hillary’s Thin Blue Line. “If you can’t be sure of the inevitability of progressivism, what can you believe in? Conventional wisdom holds that Hillary can easily defeat a Republican challenger made ugly by ‘intolerance’ and ‘bigotry’. But given the miscalculations of the past months there must be some doubt whether Hillary may confidently shelter behind her Blue Wall. There may be some reason to suspect that her Left Wing will not shut the savages down. The biggest potential mistake the Democratic party can make is to imagine that ‘America’s angry year’ was created by Trump; that by stopping him they will have won their war. The RAND history survey suggests this is unlikely. It is the long term trends that will be decisive. Elites facing an insurgency often discover the need for strategic patience and solutions only long after their overconfidence has doomed them to defeat.”