"Trump-Mania! Trump-Mania! I HATE Trump-Mania!!"
Just short? Losing by NINE POINTS (53-44) is considered coming up just short while winning by 2 points is a blow out in the Liberal mind.
The Democratic Party is in a deep, deep hole. But Democrats are trying to do something about it.
Not long after the 2014 debacle, leading Democratic Party figures began focusing on a profound problem Democrats now faced over the long term: The deep, deep hole the party has dug for itself in on the level of the states.
Democratic Party fundraisers, activists and strategists recognized early this year that this deficit must be addressed, because it’s allowing major GOP policy advances on the state level, and imperiling Democratic chances (due to the role of state legislatures in redistricting, which will happen again after 2020) of winning back the House anytime soon. Republicans control a majority of governorships and an even larger majority of state legislatures.
This problem received a new burst of attention this week when Vox’s Matthew Yglesias published a piece painting the Dem state-level woes in unusually vivid and sobering terms, arguing that Dems are “in denial†about them and “don’t even admit that they exist.†Some on the left pushed back, noting it is unfair to say Democrats are unaware of this; indeed, some Dems have been publicly and privately discussing what to do about it for a year. But Yglesias is right about the enormity of the problem. He’s also right that it’s unclear whether Dems have come up with an adequate solution to it or whether enough of them are focused on just how serious it is.
For the dim’s it is them. Not Trump. The continuing loss of state legislatures tells the tale.