Will Trumps win finally break Democrats from the fever theyve been living in?

Celeb-spotters at the nation’s airports have been disappointed this past week.A whole cast of celebrities swore that they would leave the country if Trump won this month’s election.And yet — to date — the great celebrity exodus is nowhere to be seen.People have stood in vain waiting to see if Whoopi Goldberg would make good on her promise and get on a plane after Trump’s victory.

Ahead of this election — just like in 2016 — Cher said that she would leave America if Trump got into the Oval Office.But this time Cher really meant it.“This time I will leave,” she told an interviewer ahead of this election.Yet so far as we know Cher is still among us.As are Amy Schumer, Bruce Springsteen and Bryan Cranston.

I know that a lot of people will still be worried at the thought of living in a country that does not have Bryan Cranston in it.But for the time-being it looks like Canada doesn’t attract him as much as he thought.Of course we have seen all this before.

Ahead of Trump’s 2016 victory we were threatened with the loss not only of Miley Cyrus, but also of Lena Dunham.Yes, Lena Dunham.And yet the public voted the way they wanted to in spite of Dunham’s threats.I don’t point to these grandiose celebrity threats just to mock them.

But because it’s about time that the Democrats learned something from their defeat.All the celebrity-courting that Kamala and the Democrats did ahead of this election was worse than useless.It was costly and useless.

It turns out that Oprah Winfrey’s support came at a price.One million dollars to her production company to be exact.But it is also the case that these celebrities were among the people who pushed the Democrats to the place they got to.

A place where they became unelectable.The more thoughtful Democrats have been noticeably quiet over the past 10 days.Outside of the asylums of “The View” and Joy Reid’s appearances on MSNBC it seems as though a period of reflection could actually be happening.Th...