I have not read it, but evidently a big reason the report on why the Harris/Walz ticket lost was not released was because it was so badly written. The Party finally did release it, but I understand the “Biden problem” was underplayed, the border issue was hardly discussed, and the failure of Harris to distinguish her policies from Biden’s weren’t examined. The Dems put the the emphasis on how terrible the Republicans were as opposed to explaining what they planned to do.
I’m not sure we are going into the November elections in much better shape. The Republicans have much more money, and the Dems are still picking at each other.
On the other hand, I really shouldn’t criticize a report I haven’t seen. I’ll hold off on further comments until I read it.
I think it's a classic big tent problem. Somewhere along the way, the Republicans became the party of the disenchanted, the freaks, the people who felt they didn't fit in anywhere else.
ReplyDeleteTraditionally--maybe I'm looking at it from the 60s counterculture point of view, which I feel the Party never really got away from--the disenchanted, the freaks and the ones who don't belong anywhere were members of the Democratic Party and helped give them their wins in the 90s.
But now there is a purity test, and the ones who don't belong feel like *they* don't belong in the party of the ones who don't belong.
I think it happened around the time we lost the conspiracy theorists to the right wing.
I am with you about feeling not overly optimistic about the midterms. The party stalwarts act like a "blue wave" is a foregone conclusion and I think it's anything but. "Just take a look around!" is not a campaign strategy.
For something they've pinned all their hopes on, they aren't doing a lot about actually making it happen.