I mostly agree with this article. Mainstream media has become an ineffectual echo chamber. The ones saying “Rioting is not the way to convince voters to support you” are being drowned out by “Trump is literally Hitler so riots are A-OK!”. The leadership of the Democrat party has shown not the slightest inclination of changing direction, and so my prediction is that they will get slaughtered even worse in 2018.
The conspiratorial part of me is wondering something. It is wondering whether the sensible Democrats have decided that 2018 is hopeless, and are deliberately not changing course that after the second debacle in a row they will finally be able to decisively shed the identity-politics wing.
I hope they do try to shed the identity politics wing. It is all they have, without it, they will be out of power for 50 years.