Michael Moore’s five-step program for Dems to get over the election

“Take over the Democratic Party and return it to the people. They have failed us miserably,” Moore listed as his first priority. He supported socialist Bernie Sanders in the primary before reluctantly embracing Hillary Clinton as his only option in the wake of the Trump wave.

The director has been promoting his most recent film “Michael Moore in TrumpLand” which documents the Midwestern-born political pundit’s interactions with the disenfranchised working class voters he argued earlier in the campaign could come out big and cost Clinton the election. However, Moore himself seemed to become susceptible to progressive optimism the morning of the election by appearing to question his earlier warning.

After the election results pointed to a Republican victory, Moore tweeted that Trump supporters have “voted to leave America” just like the United Kingdom left the European Union in the Brexit referendum.

Moore said step two is to “fire” all the political “bloviators” who missed the anger and upheaval in the country, and said they will keep making things up as they go along in an attempt to protect their rapidly declining credibility.

“Fire all pundits, predictors, pollsters and anyone else in the media who had a narrative they wouldn’t let go of and refused to listen to or acknowledge what was really going on. Those same bloviators will now tell us we must ‘heal the divide’ and ‘come together.’ They will pull more hooey like that out of their ass in the days to come. Turn them off.”

Third, he encouraged all Democratic members of Congress to “fight, resist and obstruct in the way Republicans did against President Obama every day for eight full years … must step out of the way and let those of us who know the score lead the way in stopping the meanness and the madness that’s about to begin.”

Fourth, he wrote progressives need to stop expressing their surprise after their premature celebrations, arguing that the country was wearing beer goggles as they ignored the concerns of Trump’s battle-ready constituents and confidently assumed that a reality television star couldn’t possibly be elected to the nation’s highest office.

“What you mean to say is that you were in a bubble and weren’t paying attention to your fellow Americans and their despair. YEARS of being neglected by both parties, the anger and the need for revenge against the system only grew. Along came a TV star they liked whose plan was to destroy both parties and tell them all ‘You’re fired!’ Trump’s victory is no surprise. He was never a joke. Treating him as one only strengthened him,” said Moore, further asserting that the mainstream media will never own up to contributing to the creature of their own creation.

Finally, he argued that every progressive should tell everyone they meet today that Clinton won the popular vote and demanded reform of the “arcane insane 18th-century idea called the Electoral College,” before arguing that liberals simply lack the leadership to make sure that the progressive moral majority wins elections.

“Fact. If you woke up this morning thinking you live in an effed-up country, you don’t. The majority of your fellow Americans wanted Hillary, not Trump. The only reason he’s president is because of an arcane, insane 18th-century idea called the Electoral College. Until we change that, we’ll continue to have presidents we didn’t elect and didn’t want,” wrote Moore. “We live in a country where the majority agree with the “liberal” position. We just lack the liberal leadership to make that happen.”

He also appeared to point to his controversial film “Fahrenheit 9/11,” in which he argued that corporate interests including the mainstream media worked against the public interest by convincing the country to support the last Republican president George W. Bush’s fateful decision to invade Iraq.