Believe it and get to work. Our party basically has ceased to exist in any meaningful way all across America. We don’t have the Presidency, Senate, or House. We don’t (and won’t) have the Federal Judiciary. And we control the fewest state houses, the fewest governorships, the fewest state courts. We control the fewest…

Get one. This doesn’t happen some other way. We either have a party or we don’t. We either have the sort of machinery that Republicans have built over the past three decades, the machinery that has kept them at the very worst competitive and at the very best (well, what they consider the best) to be in control of just…

I particularly like the woman and the blonde dude on the left. I imagine their conversation:

Just the left nutsack?

EXACTLY. The thing we need to do is work on these states, and if we are going to get the states we need to have some strong local teams.

I totally agree with your analysis. 2018 is the longest of long shots, that one where if it happened it would be like the worst ranked team in the MLB making it through the wild card game and then sweeping the World Series.

Probably with Trumps’ first big gaffe as President-Elect.

The worst part is that the Democratic Party has, essentially, ceased to exist with this election. I realize there were some bright spots, but Obama is stepping down, Hilary isn’t going to be the leader, and who are the stars of the Democratic Party now?

Voted for Kamala.

I remember reading someone say that Cory Booker was not an ideal candidate either.

I know that white people are not familiar with the concept of voting for survival and my god was that apparent this election.

The problem is the Republicans have a majority in both places. And unlike the Democrats, they won’t be so cautious about building bi-partisanship for their policies.

The left hasn’t exactly been embracing them though, has it?

No, they haven’t and you just said it. They went Obama in 2008 and 2012, and actually poor white people have been consistently Democrat voters for decades. It is how Michigan and PA were considered part of the “firewall.”

Except the left has repeatedly said the problem is whiteness. Look at the protests in Berkeley: protesters were literally telling people it was about whiteness.

So you don’t think identity politics is to blame at all? You don’t think the people who voted Obama twice and flipped to Trump aren’t there at all?

The chance of taking congress in two years is zero. The midterms don’t get turn-out from the left.

For who? Who is left in the Democratic Party? Hilary was supposed to stock her cabinet with rising stars: now Hilary likely won’t run again, Tim Kaine is meh, and we have a minority in the Federal, State, and Local governments to pull people from.

I posted this earlier:

We stoked that tribalism though. I posted this in my own thread: