Posted on 01/19/2017 12:46:30 PM PST by Windflier
“Last night I stood at your doorstep / Trying to figure out what went wrong,” Bruce Springsteen sang quietly to the crowd in what he called “a prayer for post-election.” “It’s gonna be a long walk home.”
What happened the next night shocked even the most pessimistic Democrats. But in another sense, it was the reckoning the party had been expecting for years. They were counting on a Clinton win to paper over a deeper rot they’ve been worrying about—and to buy them some time to start coming up with answers. In other words, it wasn’t just Donald Trump. Or the Russians. Or James Comey. Or all the problems with how Clinton and her aides ran the campaign. Win or lose, Democrats were facing an existential crisis in the years ahead—the result of years of complacency, ignoring the withering of the grass roots and the state parties, sitting by as Republicans racked up local win after local win.
“The patient,” says Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper, “was clearly already sick.”
As Trump takes over the GOP and starts remaking its new identity as a nationalist, populist party, creating a new political pole in American politics for the first time in generations, all eyes are on the Democrats. How will they confront a suddenly awakened, and galvanized, white majority? What’s to stop Trump from doing whatever he wants? Who’s going to pull a coherent new vision together? Worried liberals are watching with trepidation, fearful that Trump is just the beginning of worse to come, desperate for a comeback strategy that can work.
What’s clear from interviews with several dozen top Democratic politicians and operatives at all levels, however, is that there is no comeback strategy—just a collection of half-formed ideas, all of them challenged by reality. And for whatever scheme they come up with, Democrats don’t even have a flag-carrier. Barack Obama? He doesn’t want the job. Hillary Clinton? Too damaged. Bernie Sanders? Too socialist. Joe Biden? Too tied to Obama. Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer? Too Washington. Elizabeth Warren? Maybe. And all of them old, old, old.
The Democrats’ desolation is staggering.
Bruce the Lefty Fascist can jam it.
BooHoo
She had the backbone to resign her post in the DNC when she realized what kind of scum the Clintonites are.
John the Baptist was a lone voice crying in the wilderness, but he knew the savior and leader of his crusade would soon arise. The dems in the wilderness? They ain’t got none!
Fixed.
“Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.”
- John F. Kennedy
These uncivilized beasts/barbarians should and will be extinct. Life is too short to have a liar, looter, POS, punk, progressive, criminal, conman, collectivist, Clinton, socialist, SCUMBAG, tyrant, totalitarian, dysfunctional, dirtbag in the political arena of the greatest country in the history of civilization. Americans are answering the wake up call, the 3am ones too.
HOORAY Americans
The democratic party is no longer a national party, but rather a regional/urban party. For it to say that was ‘mainstream’ for the last 30 years was the biggest fraudulent lie told to the American people.
The Democrats have gone further and further left in recent years. They have left the rest of us behind.
Democrats push issues such as homosexuality, transwhatever bathroom access, political correctness, and global warming. They push issues which out them way out of the mainstream.
And on the other hand, they don’t want to call Islamic terror by its rightful name. They are so fearful of offending Muslims and inciting violence. What they don’t realize is that they already hate us, and no appeasement of Muslim radicals will ever be enough.
Democrats have devolved over to the lunatic fringe in the eyes of many Americans. Even many more moderate Democrats are uneasy with the leftward drift of the party.
Greatness in every bite... 😀
The gaslighting ended at 9pm on Tuesday, November 8th, 2016. :)
Obama has overseen the decimation of the Democrat Party.
They have no bench to recruit from for higher offices.
The only ones left are all old and has-beens.
And the young energetic base are from “Lord of the Flies.”
Yes, the Democrats are a #SpiritCooking satanic pedophile cult, allied with the other famous satanic pedophile cult, the Islamofascists.
LOL! It won't be her "turn" for another 20 years, if ever. She's military, and has "command" presence. :)
Gabbard would probably have beaten Trump like a rented mule, especially with The Tape.
Too bad, so effing sad. 😀 😀😀
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