I ask this in all seriousness.
Look, Im a moderate who lives in the very democratic city of Pittsburgh. I have friends from every walk of life and while the hardcore dems and the Hardcore republicans have the expected responses, im finding the vast majority of my like minded independants and even the typically moderate democrats are simply done with this aspect of the party. I had a long conversation with several of them, Of note, one of which is a bisexual woman and another who has probably 90% homosexual friends... both lamented the overreactionary state of the male gay population and the extreme democratic hardcores... they literally spoke as I would expect the conservatives here too, only with more outrage because they feel like the reaction to trump has been worse than his own immature behavior.
This is the group that abandoined Hillary and right now I am hearing them do what i did years ago and shut themselves off of voting for the dems anymore. I cannot see how alienating all the middle is going to win them anything going forward.
I cannot see how they can even dent the state legislatures, and the repubs are ever so close to being able to force consitutional ammendments
I cant see any path forward in the judicial route... they lost that badly
I cant see how they ever get the house back without the state governements gerrymandering them in their favor again
I cant see them holding what they have in the senate next term, much less gaining it back..
I mean maybe 8 to 10 years from now they have a shot, but this looks like an endless black hole for them... What am I missing?
Look, Im a moderate who lives in the very democratic city of Pittsburgh. I have friends from every walk of life and while the hardcore dems and the Hardcore republicans have the expected responses, im finding the vast majority of my like minded independants and even the typically moderate democrats are simply done with this aspect of the party. I had a long conversation with several of them, Of note, one of which is a bisexual woman and another who has probably 90% homosexual friends... both lamented the overreactionary state of the male gay population and the extreme democratic hardcores... they literally spoke as I would expect the conservatives here too, only with more outrage because they feel like the reaction to trump has been worse than his own immature behavior.
This is the group that abandoined Hillary and right now I am hearing them do what i did years ago and shut themselves off of voting for the dems anymore. I cannot see how alienating all the middle is going to win them anything going forward.
I cannot see how they can even dent the state legislatures, and the repubs are ever so close to being able to force consitutional ammendments
I cant see any path forward in the judicial route... they lost that badly
I cant see how they ever get the house back without the state governements gerrymandering them in their favor again
I cant see them holding what they have in the senate next term, much less gaining it back..
I mean maybe 8 to 10 years from now they have a shot, but this looks like an endless black hole for them... What am I missing?