No, they do not. They're so stuck on identity politics that they can't even see the coalition that opposed them.
Optimistic Democrats have long believed the voter coalition behind Obama ― young people, brown people, lower-income people and a sprinkling of white professionals ― was a stable and growing majority that could always put Democrats over the top.
Didn't the Democrat base once include a rather large slice of white working class folks? Sort of missing in that equation, aren't they? The Party Of The Little Guy seemed preoccupied with kicking that poor schmuck to the curb and blaming him for the lack of racial and economic comity in the entire society. That's not going to win a lot of votes, and taking them for granted is far worse.
Many are interpreting Trump’s election as a white supremacist backlash against the first black president and misogynist fear of a first woman president. After Trump’s vile campaign, it is impossible to conclude these were not significant factors.
"Many" are fools. If there's a single sliver of Trump's coalition that may be remotely described as "white supremacist" I'll eat my MAGA hat. But there's a clue there. Use that phrase of hatred on those who aren't, and they're not too likely to vote for your side. Who did Hillary say she was going to have to "talk to" in order to establish better racial relationships? White people, of course. That single phrase caused a lot of eyebrows to raise and she never had a single clue. Nor could one credibly call anyone who voted for Sarah Palin "misogynist". That smear is past its expiration date.
Not a clue is right, not a clue that what killed Hillary's campaign was Hillary - remote, disengaged, disinterested, and blatantly, thoroughly corrupt. Trump was running three rallies a day when she was drinking scotch with heavy donors at private parties. She is known to be cheap, foul-tempered, ugly in speech and thought, dismissive of ordinary voters, and unbelievably entitled. How far she got is testimony to how powerful the Democrat political machine is, and in order for it to remain that way she had to win, and she didn't even try.
I agree with you. I think her party is going to get angry with her as time goes on. She was saturated in corruption and forced her party to go for it all, in losing she tore it to shreds. They eat their own and I don’t think she’ll be an exception - not now. It’s as though they’re looking for the nuanced reason, which straw broke the camels back? ...when a nuclear bomb has really gone off.