Posted on 01/03/2017 11:00:54 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
As we face the new year and the realities of politics in a post-Obama world, the Democrats understandably feel the need to act as if some things are still normal.
That is, even if they suspect that Donald Trump and the Republicans will soon turn the U.S. into a one-party state in all but name, the Democrats need to avoid admitting as much—to themselves or anyone else—to prevent their fears from become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
This means that, in the hope of being able to win elections in the future, Democrats are trying to think through the various reasons that the recent elections did not go their way.
True, their party did pick up two seats in the Senate and several House seats, and the presidential election was lost only because of Trump's bizarre and extraordinarily narrow path to victory in the electoral college.
Even so, there were times during the campaign when there was good reason to believe that Hillary Clinton would win in a landslide and that both houses would flip to the Democrats.
So even though it is classic defeatism that has some people on the left calling the 2016 election a "rout," there is certainly plenty of reason for Democrats to try to figure out how such a promising election ended with so many disappointments.
Much of that discussion involves trying to decide whether they have permanently lost the voters who gave Trump his tiny margins of victory in what were once reliably Democratic states, especially Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin.
One obviously wrong argument that emerged soon after the election was that the Democrats became too invested in so-called identity politics. Jennifer Finney Boylan's powerful response to that load of nonsense....
(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...
No, but the Repubs can lose them.
So rather than even let the president get sworn in and do ANYTHING, or even letting the new Congress do ANYTHING, the topic of the day is “what will it take to get control again”....
Funny how I don’t recall the press having this concern in 2009 for what it will take for Republicans to get the House, Senate, or White House again. The press was full of Hopium telling the “Right” that their day had passed and it was a new era and sit down and shut up and...
Bizarre because the notion that NYC and LA shouldn't dominate the entire nation. Riiiiiiiiiight.
This guy is also far-left, but he’s more briefed in:
Resisting Trump Is Not Enough
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/resisting-trump-is-not-enough_us_586a9828e4b014e7c72ee2fe
Their recent behavior has shown their true character and the element they attract. I could never go back to the Democratic party, regardless of Trump.
Donald Trump did not run as a Republican. He ran as an independent/third-party candidate using the infrastructure of the Republican Party.
He didn't win because he was "Republican". He won in spite of it. In spite of the ENTIRE two-party system as we have come to know and accept it.
Why have so many literally lost their minds over Trump winning? Because they didn't want or expect things to change so drastically. They know the old way is over with. That paradigm is DEAD. There has been a political realignment in America as has not transpired in any recent memory. And it seems that some would rather be dead than accept that reality.
It isn't "Republican versus Democrat" anymore. Or even "conservative versus liberal". The veneer has been stripped away. It is now apparent for all to see: this is individual versus collective. Nation versus globalism. Reality versus "feelings".
And the Democrats are driving themselves into oblivion if they do not adapt. If they do not discover very quickly what, if anything, they stand for.
The Republicans too, for that matter.
Oh. My. God. The production of that article has to have required the consumption of at least 5 lbs of crack, cocaine that could have gone to needy inner-city yutes who can’t afford their own!
Or sexism. Or nazis. Or haters. Sometimes multiples.
What true American would want to be a member of that group.
Win back?
why does the left seem so worried if Trump won by such a tiny margin?
Talk about bizarre.
As long as the central Democratic message is “we hate white people”, no.
You left out angry women, aka modern feminists.
I hope that the Democrats and the Republicans do drive themselves into that oblivion.
The real question:
“Can Newsweak win back readers?”
Neil, Neil, Neil, you ignorant Fake News slut. Get in tune with Personal Liberty and a Civil Society. Then get back to us with your drecky drivel.
Angry feminists, also known as women, but we don’t like to mention that part much.
Democrats lost over 1000 seats nationally across all levels of government. Republicans have a record number of State Houses (69 of 99), and more Governorships than in the last 99 years (34 of 50)... and the Dems are poised to lose about 10 more Senate seats next year (using the Trump map, the GOP loses NV and picks up 11 other states with Senate seats up for grabs in 2018, making it 62-38... the Dems haven't had 62 in the Senate since WWI). But yes, they did pick up 6 seats in Congress, out of the 69 they were behind. Now it's only 61 total. Good job!
and the presidential election was lost only because of Trump's bizarre and extraordinarily narrow path to victory in the electoral college.
Narrow? 306-232 is narrow?
(8 not 6)
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