Fair comment, and you may certainly argue that the election would have gone the other way if the Dems had engaged in an actual primary process rather than summarily appointing a straw woman candidate and ordering voters not to believe their lying eyes (and ears) on pain of being labeled a racist, sexist, etc.
Fair comment, and you may certainly argue that the election would have gone the other way if the Dems had engaged in an actual primary process rather than summarily appointing a straw woman candidate and ordering voters not to believe their lying eyes (and ears) on pain of being labeled a racist, sexist, etc.
But it is worth noting that: (1) the Republicans seem to have held the House and gained seats in the Senate, (2) the Republicans had significant gains amongst a number of facially surprising demographic groups; and (3) a number of progressive referenda were defeated in state-level popular votes (even in midnight blue California).
I suspect that history will prove that the rumors of the death of the Democratic Party have been greatly exaggerated (so sayeth the Twitterati after pretty much all elections these days), but these trends should be enough to make Democrats reconsider some of their core hubristic beliefs: (1) that they are always on the right side of history; and (2) that using the "inevitability of demographics" to justify ignoring the concerns of a large swath of voters may not always be a winning strategy.
Fair comment, and you may certainly argue that the election would have gone the other way if the Dems had engaged in an actual primary process rather than summarily appointing a straw woman candidate and ordering voters not to believe their lying eyes (and ears) on pain of being labeled a racist, sexist, etc.
But it is worth noting that: (1) the Republicans seem to have held the House and gained seats in the Senate, (2) the Republicans had significant gains amongst a number of facially surprising demographic groups; and (3) a number of progressive referenda were defeated in state-level popular votes (even in midnight blue California).
I suspect that history will prove that the rumors of the death of the Democratic Party have been greatly exaggerated (so sayeth the Twitterati after pretty much all elections these days), but these trends should be enough to make Democrats reconsider some of their core hubristic beliefs: (1) that they are always on the right side of history; and (2) that using the "inevitability of demographics" to justify ignoring the concerns of a large swath of voters may not always be a winning strategy.