Finally, the Democrats are facing reality. Even Tom Perez, foul-mouthed national Democratic National Committee Chairman admitted the Democrats have two problems: lack of infrastructure and no clear message to convey values.
Unfortunately for the Democrats, they have more than two problems. They lack values and they lack leadership. The Democrats not only lost the House and Senate and the Presidency, they also lost almost 1,100 positions at the state and local levels.
The lead Democrat in the House is Nancy Pelsoi, a progressive coastal out of San Francisco. She is seventy-seven years old, addle-brained, and repeatedly calls President Trump President Bush.
Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer, seventy-eight years old, represents Maryland’s Fifth Congressional District, making Hoyer another coastal progressive. The Assistant Leaders for the Democrats is James Clyburn. He is seventy-seven years old. He represents South Carolina as a coastal progressive.
The three politicians I mentioned have an accumulated 232 years between them. Where are the young, up and coming leaders of the party?
Apparently, tired of losing the Rust Belt and Heartland by a party led by coastal progressives, three Democrats are forming a new political organization to give progressive candidates in the Midwest and Appalachia a new form of support that does not rely on the Democratic Party’s coastal elite. They are going to try and negate the Republican’s ability to tying Democrats to the party’s coastal and culturally socialist wing.
Nancy Pelosi has become toxic to the Democratic Party. Representative Tim Ryan (D-OH) has attacked the Democratic party’s leadership in the House. Former MSNBC host Krystal Ball called Pelosi an “impediment to every House Democrat in the country except for a few coastal enclaves.”
So what else are the Democrats doing? They are attempting to rebrand their image with a populist agenda. A populist is a person seeking to represent the interests of ordinary people.
The Democrats are the party of the mega-rich, the billionaires like George Soros, Thomas Steyer, Robert Mercer, Paul Singer, Warren Buffet, Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, et. al. Nancy Pelosi and Maxine Waters are very rich. These people have no interest in the ordinary man, the missing American.
The Democrats are moving away from the Russian collusion story because it never had traction, except in the Zombie News Media. Even Charles Schumer admits it. The Democrats are now saying that they lost to Trump because the voters don’t know what the party stands for. Hillary Clinton never had a reason for campaigning. She though she deserved the presidency, silly girl.
Democrats once represented the working class but no more. The working class went with Donald Trump. In an attempt to display a populist bent, the Democrats came up with a new slogan: A Better Deal: Better Jobs, Better Wages, Better Future.” They had eight years to make everything better but failed. Twitter users mocked the similarity to the Papa John’s slogan, “Better Ingredients, Better Pizza.”
The Democrats can never represent the working class again because the Democrats represent the mega-rich, Hollywood, and identity politics: minority groups identified by race, gender, wished-for-gender, and ethnicity.
Apparently, the Democrats are now relying on a simple rebrand: “A Better Deal.” It still doesn’t work. It’s like the pizza analogy again: A Better Pizza, Same Old Pie, Smaller Slice.” The stagnant socialist strategy of the Democratic Party does not pass the proverbial sniff test.