The Democratic Party Is in Worse Shape Than You Thought

[Spike]

ha ha


The Democratic Party Is in Worse Shape Than You Thought

Sifting through the wreckage of the 2016 election, Democratic pollsters, strategists and sympathetic academics have reached some unnerving conclusions.

What the autopsy reveals is that Democratic losses among working class voters were not limited to whites; that crucial constituencies within the party see its leaders as alien; and that unity over economic populism may not be able to turn back the conservative tide.

Equally disturbing, winning back former party loyalists who switched to Trump will be tough: these white voters’ views on immigration and race are in direct conflict with fundamental Democratic tenets.

A consistent theme is that the focus on white defections from the Democratic Party masks an even more threatening trend: declining turnout among key elements of the so-called Rising American Electorate — minority, young and single voters

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/08/...-is-in-worse-shape-than-you-thought.html?_r=0

 

[Djfan]

Oh darn

 

[Steelin]

Did anyone read the idiotic comments? Limousine liberals one and all.

 

[IndySteel]

After such a massive, humiliating loss you would think that the idiot democrats would try to regroup, come up with a detailed platform and focus on next year's elections. But no, they have totally imploded and lost their minds. It's all about Russia and anti-Trump 24/7. And it's going to kill them off in 2018.

 

[hamster]

 

[SteelChip]

After such a massive, humiliating loss you would think that the idiot democrats would try to regroup, come up with a detailed platform and focus on next year's elections. But no, they have totally imploded and lost their minds. It's all about Russia and anti-Trump 24/7. And it's going to kill them off in 2018.

They got super stars in the wings, don't you fret.

 

[Tim Steelersfan]

Democrats are imploding. We see the evidence of it here, locally at home on our own board with the likes of Tibs, Tard, and Lodyte. But it's nationwide. Even the uber-Liberal NY Times weigh in:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/10/opinion/sunday/can-democrats-save-themselves.html

Can Democrats Save Themselves?

To win the House in 2018 and buck President Trump’s worst impulses, Democrats don’t need more votes in Manhattan and Brooklyn. They need them around Halcottsville, in the 19th Congressional District, where the party should be able to prevail but keeps falling short.

From the scandalous look of the last week, dominated by James Comey’s testimony, Democrats are beautifully positioned to trounce Republicans wherever Republicans are trounce-able. But the party has done an ace job of sabotaging itself before. The 19th District, also known as the Hudson Valley, tells that story well.They’re still not sure how much of Trump’s victory had to do with Hillary Clinton’s flaws versus the party’s poor grasp of America, and the more they focus on the former, tattling for the tell-all book “Shattered” and then tittering over its revelations, the less they own up to the latter.

They’re still searching for a concise, coherent message. They’re still feuding: the Bernie Sanders/Elizabeth Warren wing versus the moderates. And they’re still indulging in elitist optics at odds with the lessons of 2016. Although new research commissioned by Priorities USA, a Democratic super PAC, concluded that many Obama-to-Trump voters believed that Democrats are out of touch with less affluent Americans, a recent, high-profile Democratic brainstorming session in Washington was held at the opulent Four Seasons Hotel.

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There's a mish-mash of NY Times horseshit in there, but it's always fun to see, even in the echo chamber, they are wodering - "Just how f#@$!ked up are we?"

LOL