“The Democratic Party’s in disarray.” That is what Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-MI) told Washington Post columnist Jonathan Capehart.
Dingell’s observation about the Democratic Party is reflected in the following headlines.
In What’s Wrong With the Democrats?, Franklin Foer describes the strategy that the Democratic Party has been using. Then he says this:
Foer goes on to describe the so-called “Resistance” that has developed within the Democratic Party.
All of the above bad news for Democrats is coming from a Democrat.
Foer isn’t the only Democrat to scold the current Democratic Party. In a December 2016 Huffington Post blog post, Miles Mogulescu writes this:
In a commentary for Roll Call, Walter Shapiro writes, “What is undeniable is that the Democrats are long overdue for a period of reckoning about who they are and what they represent. The problem is not messaging, consultants or Nancy Pelosi. It is that the Democrats (and, yes, that definitely includes Bernie Sanders) have to wave good-bye to the 20th century.”
Regarding the 2016 presidential election, Shapiro writes, “Hillary Clinton — who like her husband was shaped by the three GOP landslides of the 1980s — embodied the dangers of combining Democratic political caution with a lack of personal charisma. As a result, it is already hard to remember a single major policy animating her 2016 campaign.”
In Dems face identity crisis, political reporter Amie Parnes writes the following:
Parnes ends her article with this:
So, conservatives and Republicans can sit back, relax and enjoy the show as the Democratic Party implodes.
Popcorn anyone?
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