Posted on 01/19/2017 10:05:37 PM PST by Olog-hai
Democrats begin the Donald Trump presidency in sad shape. They lack a clear power base, they’ve got no distinct national leader, and party brokers are searching for a formula to counter the new Republican-dominated government and figure out how to win again.
It’s a curious and dispiriting position for a party that has led the national popular vote six out of the past seven presidential elections. Yet Hillary Clinton lost the Electoral College count, while Republicans maintained their largest House majority since 1928 and kept control of the Senate — with 2018 advantages that offer the potential of a Senate supermajority in two years.
Outside Washington, Democrats now have just 16 governors and run 14 state legislatures, compared to 33 Republican governors and 32 GOP-run legislative bodies.
“We haven’t been in this shape in a while … but we will rebuild,” insists interim Democratic Party Chairwoman Donna Brazile. …
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They have a power base.
It’s just about to be deported.
They bet everything they had and burned every bridge on open borders.
Did you really even win the popular vote when major democrat states let illegals vote, not to mention dem vote fraud??????????
They have Hollywood celebrities
Don’t believe the hype they will be back. Let’s hope Donald gets as much done as possible. No power base? How about minorities, single women, Jews, liberals, and of course, idiots.
Sorry, cheating Donna, but all you'll see is more lost seats once Trump shows how to advance our nation in foreign and domestic matters.
Your days are over; we reclaim our Constitutional Republic. What? You thought the USA is a democracy and majority should rule? Give me your address and I'll send you a pocket Constitution courtesy of Veterans for Constitutional Restoration (VetsCor). Enjoy your oblivion.
“Liberals” encompasses liberal nominal Jews and liberal nominal Christians.
9/10ths of the media is firmly in their corner.
The MSM is their power base and their leadership. That does not change. The mediascum must be crushed.
They're the biggest gift for Donald Trump.
The Democrats are in the best shape they’ve been in during my lifetime, from my perspective.
with 2018 advantages that offer the potential of a Senate supermajority in two years...
Dems are so ####ed :)
Best election ever.
Remember when CNN was asking if he was insane and/or the campaign is falling apart and/or he will bring down the whole republican party line?
How can one be more wrong :)
Now they postulate what happens if he’s killed. Sick ####s
but all liberals are.
Just ENFORCING THE LAW, is going to cost the Dems 10-12 MILLION voters nationwide.
Watch how this works, folks.
The danger is there for the GOP-e, also. I am thoroughly disgusted by the National Chamber of Commerce.
When you think about it, IF there were an HONEST and OBJECTIVE news media in this nation, the losses of the Democrats would be even LARGER.
... and they have Alex Baldwin and Robert de Niro. They are both bellicose and acting angry. I’m sure they’re proud.
A week or two before the election, I remember hearing F Chuck Todd of Meet the Depressed telling the local Miami newsradio host (some former Dolphin player) that on November 9, the Republican Party would have to start deciding where it would go, what kind of party it would become. The implication was so crystal clear. F Chuck Todd was certain DJT would lose bigly. Smug.
Remember when John Kasich had to cancel his big meeting with GOPe donors scheduled two days after the election on how to rebuild the ruins of a post Trump party?
“Party insiders will choose Brazile’s DNC successor next month, a campaign that has revived fissures between the party’s liberal and centrist factions.”
Why do they never use the term “extreme” when describing the Democrats. It should be THE PARTY’S EXTREME HARD LIBERALS AND LIBERAL factions. There are no “centrist” in the Democrat party as it exist today.
I’m still in shock.
I still fear it’s a rebound of my head injury and it’s not all real!
We NEEDED CO, NV and NH. We got none!!
Who the #### heard of WI or MI :)
We learned an important lesson that we should have learned from BRexit.
Polls mean #### :)
Off work in an hour, pick up some goodies, maybe catch a quick nap and then HISTORY IS MADE!!
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