Let’s Talk About What’s Happening To The Democratic Party

The Federalist ^ | April 18, 2017 | John Daniel Davidson

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The mainstream media is obsessed with how Trump is changing the GOP. But the real transformation in American politics is happening in the Democratic Party.

This week, newly minted Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez will travel cross-country with Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Keith Ellison on a Democratic Party “unity tour” that will take them to Maine, Kentucky, Florida, Texas, Nebraska, Utah, Arizona, and Nevada—mostly red states that Trump won.

The purpose of their road trip, dubbed the “Come Together And Fight Back Tour,” is to shore up a badly fractured Democratic Party and present some semblance of a united opposition to the Trump administration. (The tour is selling T-shirts that boast, “I’m one of 65,844,610 Americans against Trump.”)

Whatever the merits of hawking anti-Trump shirts and uber-progressive talking points in Grand Prairie, Texas, the fact that Perez feels the need to embark on such a tour with Sanders and Ellison in tow speaks volumes about the transformation of the Democratic Party under Obama.

Put simply, this is Sanders’ party now. The avowed socialist’s insurgent presidential campaign last year exposed a sclerotic Democratic Party leadership woefully out of touch with its progressive base—a base that was at times openly hostile to the party’s designated heir apparent, Hillary Clinton, and completely uninterested in appeals to the white working class.

Recall that Sanders made economic populism the centerpiece of his campaign, and some of his rhetoric on that score mirrored Trump’s. But his most fervent supporters were always more interested in socialism and identity politics—free college and amnesty for illegal immigrants—than bringing manufacturing jobs back to the Rust Belt....

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I would say the Republican Party is just as riven as the Democrats. The Republican divide between the globalists and the Nationalists is just as huge as the Democrat divide with one exception. The globalist, while in complete control of the party and it’s main propaganda engines (Fox News and Rush Limbaugh as prime examples) are just tiny minority of the Republican Party as a whole. Ryan is the power broker for the globalists and needs to be taken down.

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[DungeonMaster]

“The problem is, he’s now the de facto leader of a party that has embraces his socialism but written off the white working class, which it needs to win national elections."

Most socialism models assume SOMEONE is working.

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Kinda like Ossoff not being able to vote for himself because he DOESN’T LIVE IN THE DISTRICT!!!

Seeing a pattern here...............

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Nobody should doubt that what you project cannot happen. We came damn close 2016, I think that would have set the ship sailing with very little chance of recovery. As it is, IMO the odds favor that bleak socialist future. They always do, this is IMO the natural tendency, particularly whilst the conservative side wants as little to do w/gov’t as possible and wants it out of their lives; while the other side is always working to infest government and seeks its power, influence and control at every opportunity.