On Why the Democratic Party Is Dead

Jesse's Café Américain: Jimmy Dore and Thomas Frank:



One more time.

My fear is that well-meaning people will focus on 'getting rid of Trump,' without considering what sort of leadership will replace him.

Hillary Part Deux? Or some other corporatist stooge from the GOP who runs a smoother, more polished con on the working class? Really? How neurotic is that.

The Democrats need to look at themselves and face the reasons for their failures. Not the party faithful so much, but the party leadership.

They did not just lose the Presidency. They lost almost everything, and it was theirs to lose. They did it in a way that was amazingly arrogant and out of touch with the public. This was not just a defeat; this was a disaster.


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