so much for draining the swamp

[Dill]

(11-12-2016, 04:50 PM)wildcats forever Wrote: As much as I don't want this to be true, I can't help but agree. The Dems have too much to do to become a winning party again, with less than two years to achieve that. You just can't turn back around to significant portions of your base and say "Sorry we ignored you. We're gonna be your champion again next time. Promise!"

Unless a major implosion happens with the GOP before '18, it's going to be a long row to hoe for the Democratic Party.

It is not clear to me how the Democratic party has turned its back on its base, unless you go back to Clinton's embrace of Republican legislation in the mid-90s. Or maybe I am just sleepy and can't remember. I think Republicans have won the noise battle over the last thirty years, defining liberal "elites" and "illegals" as the real source of stagnating wages, and convincing people the US has devolved to little more than a 3rd world country with an inadequate military.  But now THEY are on the hot seat of accountability.  

Hillary only lost because enough Democrats stayed home or left the presidential box unchecked on their ballots in critical states--and she still won the popular vote.  US demographics continue to shift in favor of their party. Pence may be finishing Trump's term, and millenials won't like him a bit.

If the president Trump embarrasses the US nationally, doesn't keep his domestic policy promises--or does keep them and they screw his base--then it may become clear that embracing the party whose policies screw you--have always screwed you since 1980--may not be the best way to protest being ignored.