100%. It has to do with their lack of leadership, though. There's a huge power vacuum at the top of the Democratic party right now, one which presumably won't be filled until the next presidential primaries in 2027.
It was a similar story back in 2005. The Democrats were reeling back then just as much as they do now. In 2004, they lost to GWB yet again, he even won the popular vote which had eluded him the first time around. He came in with a trifecta and thought he had a strong mandate for his agenda. The parallels are uncanny. Back then, his presidency did indeed implode and Democrats ended up finding a very strong standard bearer.
A repeat of this playbook from 20 years ago is clearly the hopium Democrats are huffing right now. I doubt it will pan out that well for them this time around. Neither is a rockstar candidate like Obama on the horizon for them, nor are Trump's core policies as unpopular and billionaire-friendly as GWB's. As long as Trump doesn't overplay his hand on tariffs and avoids a recession, the GOP will imho be fine.
Well said. To add to this:
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“The Democratic Party must choose between two basic strategies. The first is to hunker down, change nothing, and wait for some catastrophe—deep recession, failed war, or a breach of the Constitution—to deliver victory. This strategy has the disadvantage of placing the party entirely at the mercy of events. It puts the party in the position of tacitly hoping for bad news—a stance the electorate can smell and doesn't like. And it is a formula for purposeless, ineffective governance.
The other strategy, active rather than passive, is to address the party's weaknesses directly. Thus the next nominee must be fully credible as commander-in-chief of our armed forces and as the prime steward of our foreign policy; he must squarely reflect the moral sentiments of average Americans; and he must offer a progressive economic message, based on the values of upward mobility and individual effort.”
The authors of those lines are Elaine Kamarck and Bill Galston. And it sounds to me like they were written a few months ago. When were they written?
Elaine Kamarck: 1989.
Bill Galston: 36 years ago.
There seems to be such a vast schism between the Identitarian activist groups within the Democratic party and the moderates (is this the right word to use?) that I find it hard to believe that they could get a leader who'd actually unite the factions. I still chuckle thinking back the names "genocide joe" and "bombala harris"