State of the Democratic Party

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(11-16-2016, 12:49 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: So, there was an article in my daily Virginia politics email from the Richmond Times-Dispatch and the headline was "Jim Webb applauds Donald Trump, says election shows Democrats have lost white working class". You should be able to read the article since RTD is a metered paywall site and I doubt any of you frequent them like I do.

Webb discussed recently how the Democratic party has moved away from the part of FDR, being for the working class, no matter the race, gender, sexuality, "to the point that it made white working people their most convenient whipping posts. Particularly white males." He preached on the way the party has gone the route of elitism.

Whether you agree with Webb or not, it's clear that the Democratic party is having a bit of an identity crisis at the moment. We all thought the GOP would be fighting against a schism (and it still may, there is still a lot of turmoil there to be hashed out), but no one was predicting that the DNC would have to take a hard look at itself in this way so soon.

So what do you think the Democrats need to do going forward? What happened to them? What do you predict for the future of the party? I have more to type out, but I have to actually do some work so I will add my two cents here in a bit.

Honestly Matt I rarely think about or care about "the party" as a whole like that.

The inner workings and the backroom politics are well out of my view and my hands.

But given the results of THIS election it would seem they either need to change their entire campaigning methods or wait it out and see if Trump can be successful enough to carry out a re-election campaign the same way.

Let's say he doesn't run for a second term for the sake of argument.  Pence can NOT run the same kind of campaign Trump did.  Trump had a personality that allowed him to say whatever, whenever and never be flustered about being caught in a lie.  He wasn't a "politician" he was a television character on in improv show.

And he was facing an opponent that had many negatives herself that could not be overcome simply by talking about them because there was always the background noise from the right that she was always lying...even when she didn't and Trump did.

This may have been a once in a lifetime type scenario and we won't see ANY change except in the selection method of who the behind the scenes types want to push to the fore front to run for office.