Tom Edsall is the problem. So are all these political scientists. So is the New York Times. That’s the actual Democratic Party. They won’t fire themselves and they don’t see themselves as responsible. nytimes.com/2021/11/17/opi…
The reason Afghanistan hurt Biden is because the Democratic Party in the form of the Atlantic, the New York Times, the national security apparatus, etc turned on him. Trump’s strength is he disdained the elitists on his side. Biden hasn’t.
I don’t think a loss is going to do it. The progressive institutions are simply too strong and Democratic voters simply like their leaders too much. It’s going to take a Democratic Trump.
https://twitter.com/JENFL23/status/1460967620719661061?s=20
I was very clear that until Democrats actively reject Obama and what he did they cannot govern. So far everyone wants to pretend they can move beyond Obama without a reckoning.
Obama’s victory and failure was institutional, and they both represent the repudiation of deeply held elitist convictions going to the core of who Dems and the left still are today.
The Democratic Party brand is still the foreclosure crisis Obama engineered and then lied about. It is still Democratic voters and elites who do not know and will not believe that they voted for and stole the homes of tens of millions.
The Republicans are wildly out of touch, but if they can fix that, the Democrats will shrink into a niche regional party. So far though neither party has fixed their problems.
Dem politicians are actually more in touch. It’s the Atlantic, the New York Times, CNN, nonprofits, MSNBC, biglaw - it’s the unaccountable machine operatives who don’t have to face voters.
https://twitter.com/garydfaulkner/status/1460971253859332096?s=20
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