Wake up, Democrats: We’re in big trouble, and this is how to fix it

WaPo Opinions ^ | 11-15-2016 | Jim Kessler and Jon Cowan

[Sir Napsalot]

Jim Kessler and Jon Cowan are, respectively, senior vice president for policy and president of Third Way.

Let’s dispel the notion that if Democrats only had a different nominee the world would be set right on its axis. No matter what kind of Democrat you were, it was a bad night on Tuesday. Populists Russ Feingold of Wisconsin and Zephyr Teachout (the Bernie Sanders of New York) lost winnable races. Standard-issue progressive Katie McGinty fell in Pennsylvania, as did moderate Patrick Murphy in Florida. Outsider Jason Kander succumbed in Missouri, and so did insider Evan Bayh in Indiana.

If you share an affinity with any of these brands of Democrat and believe you don’t need to reassess — wake up! Democrats are in their worst shape in terms of officeholders at the state and federal level since Reconstruction. Something has to change if we are to be competitive in elections.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Same old excuses. “The agenda is right the presentation needs to be different.”

[RockyTx]

this story is crap.

the reason Hillary lost,
is that she failed to call Trump
a racist often enough.

[fr_freak]

Even the extreme leftist admit it. Biggest landslide in modern American history!

Yes, but until we take back the school system, K through university, it means nothing. Despite the election now, all the kids will still be indoctrinated to be good obedient anti-American socialists

[Carl Vehse]

[dragnet2]

Since Trump hasn’t even taken office, I’m confident that will take time. Just like it took time to drag our education system into the slimy globalist swamp where they teach the kidding our founders were nothing but mean racist like their white descendants.

I find it difficult to contain the contempt I have for those responsible.

[Rome2000]

Anderson Faggot just bailed on SHRILLARY’s live speech at the “Childrens Defense Fund”.

She obviously is off the steroids or whatever drugs they were pumping her full of, she looks GHASTLY.

PISS OFF SHRILLARY!, and all of the MF’s that voted for you too.!!

Anderson Fag is back from commercial, CNN won’t cover her last speech!

Anderson interviews Megan Kelly and then they just played a minute montage of the ARCHCRIMINAL sans makeup and UPPERS!

She obviously intends to look pitiful to blunt her UPCOMING INDICTMENT.

LOL

Good luck with that BITCH!

[Swanks]

I promise in Dec she will faint and be rushed to the hospital. Big scene with drone following ambulance. Worked for Reno when things became dicey.

[XEHRpa]

> Establishment Democrats turned the youth of this country against its elders

This is the tribal way. If they truly mentored the young Democrats to rise in the system, they would feel vulnerable to being politically knocked off. As a result, they won’t cede even a shred of power to anyone who could conceivably be a future threat. That is why their leaders are old folks like Hillary, Pelosi, and Reid. They *are* the Politburo.

[Husker8877]

Very well stated! Couldn’t agree more.

[eyedigress]

I just really enjoy watching the DNC implode!

Go ahead and make Nanners your chief again.

Obama’s legacy IS DONALD J. TRUMP!

[Rome2000]

Yep, typical COMMUNIST PSYOPS.

Drove up Renos spooky driveway the other day, nothing going on topside except lots of “Posted” signs every 30 feet (LOL).

COMMUNISTS OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11

[randita]

It’s pretty simple, really. My advice and it’s free.

“Stop hating your country and everything it stands for.”

Until they do that, they’re just whistling past the graveyard.

[JohnBovenmyer]

The Democrats after Hillary’s loss are like the SF Giants after Barry Bonds went down

Don't forget how many WS they've won since. The Rats need to be staked down!

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

So have they conceded that communism doesn’t work in America? That’s why they’re losing. Americans don’t want to be ruled by elites.

[Lurker]

“And their dear leader is running for the hills.”

The indictments coming will devastate the Dem party for a generation.

Trump is serious.

L

[Billthedrill]

On social policy, Democrats have to practice what we preach: tolerance. Social policy, thankfully, is the place where all facets of the party are in harmony. The fight Democrats have led to fully include lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people and immigrants in our society, to protect a woman’s right to choose, and to stand for sane gun laws and holistic policing and criminal justice has been a unifying force for Democrats, not a source of division as it was in the 1990s.

They still don't get it. Their form of "social justice" is a zero-sum game built around resentment, marginalization, and outright hatred toward the middle class, racist hatred toward its asian and white components, sexist hatred against its male component. You can't build a coalition by picking out enemies and uniting against them. You can pick a fight, that's all.

There is a vision of a united country where everyone has the same rights and obeys the same laws, but it's nowhere close to Democrat-land. Until it is, they will fail.

[adorno]

Wake up, Democrats: We’re in big trouble, and this is how to fix it

Can't fix stupid.

But, if you insist, start by recognizing that socialism has NEVER worked, any time, or any place. If democrats won't admit that simple fact, then, they'll be forever losers, even if they gain some political victories along the way.

Secondly, you must admit that, the problem with the world is NOT the U.S.

Thirdly, a country without borders is not a country at all.

Fourthly, big government is NEVER good for any country.

[Sgt_Schultze]

Excellent!