I'll give you 1 example.
Todays democrat party is devoid from majority power in the White House, Senate, House, State houses, and Govnerships across the country. Put simply, The don't set the political agenda on the local, state or federal level.
They didn't examine the root cause of the parties problms (like the DNCs decistion to defend the indefensable clinton in the late 90s') and 2002 took them by suprise.
But 2002 shouldn't have been a suprise for them. If, that is, they were really going through a constant introspoection to figure out problems and solve them before they festered into a national issue.
It's deplorable that Terry McCaulaugh still wields bill clintons stick in the party, and the DNC is ok with that ??? After all, they defended the indefensable in the late 90s and spent more time and money going after, hunting down, and vilifying Ken Star and Bill Gates, then Al Queda and Osama.