Scathing article about the state of the dem party in today’s NYT.

[anonymoose]

Excerpts:

Democrats Don’t Have a Shortcut Out of the Wilderness​

Ken Martin, … a leading candidate to become chairman of the Democratic National Committee, acknowledged this erosion of political clout in a memo to party leaders:

For the first time in modern history, the perception that Americans have of the two major political parties switched. The majority of Americans now believes that the Republican Party best represents the interests of the working class and the poor, and that the Democratic Party is the party of the wealthy and the elites.

Polling suggests that Trump is ideologically closer to the median voter than Kamala Harris. Third Way, a centrist Democratic think tank, conducted a post-election surveyasking voters to place themselves, Harris and Trump on a scale ranging from zero (very liberal) to 10 (very conservative). The mean response for Harris was 2.45, for Trump 7.78 and for all voters 5.63.

Matthew Dallek, a political historian at George Washington University, voiced serious doubts by email about the ability of the Democratic Party to compete successfully with the Republican Party:

A party whose base consists of culturally liberal, largely well-educated white Americans and a shrinking share of voters of color is almost by definition going to find it impossible to defend American democracy.
The Democratic Party is perhaps more rudderless than at any time since Bill Clinton’s presidency. Its leadership is aging. The party seems culturally out of touch to many Americans. Its brand is associated with championing niche interests.

• The two liberal cable networks, CNN and MSNBC, have experienced sharp post-election declines in viewership. Forbes reported on Nov. 29 that “MSNBC’s prime-time audience has dipped 53 percent since the week before the election,” closely followed “by a 47 percent drop by CNN — while Fox News has largely held onto its audience since President-elect Donald Trump’s victory.”
• • In city after city, voters have ousted liberal district attorneys, many whose campaigns were backed by George Soros. Many if not most of those prosecutors pressed for no-bail policies and for the abandonment of prosecuting selected misdemeanors.
  • What’s more, these cracks emerging in the institutional pillars of the left now accompany weakening Democratic support in three of its crucial constituencies: minorities, the young and urban voters.
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    Losing political parties always go through a period of recrimination, blame and introspection, but this time the grieving among Democrats has taken on a tone of remorse and futility, a sense that Trump has tapped into a deepening well of anger and frustration that has the potential to become the dominant force in American politics for years to come.
    
    
    

    Opinion | Democrats Don’t Have a Shortcut Out of the Wilderness

    The party’s weakened condition leaves it ill prepared to defend itself against a Republican Party determined to eviscerate liberalism and the left.

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[Nordberg]

Trump will make it clear whose side he is on. He promises tax cuts for the billionaires. We do know how badly they need them. Trump says he will end programs that help the aged, poor and sick. Medicare, Social Security, and food stamps are among his targets. Trump suckered the masses again.

 

[Yakuda]

Trump will make it clear whose side he is on. He promises tax cuts for the billionaires. We do know how badly they need them. Trump says he will end programs that help the aged, poor and sick. Medicare, Social Security, and food stamps are among his targets. Trump suckered the masses again.

Same old tired drivel. You morons keep scratching your asses and then wonder why your fingers stink.

 

[zymurgy]

Trump will make it clear whose side he is on. He promises tax cuts for the billionaires. We do know how badly they need them. Trump says he will end programs that help the aged, poor and sick. Medicare, Social Security, and food stamps are among his targets. Trump suckered the masses again.

actually, he would give tax cuts to all tax payers you class warfare shit stain