Corrupt, out-of-touch, San Francisco leftist Nancy Pelosi will continue to be the botoxed face of the Democrat Party. Which means the Democrats will continue to obsess over transgender bathrooms and appeasing the radical #BlackLivesMatter and #NotMyPresident left while dismissing the economic struggles of the middle class.
This should help keep the House in Republican hands for a couple more cycles.
Poor Tim Ryan. Little does he know the Dems want nothing to do with heterosexual white men from Middle America anymore.
It’s apparent the Dems learned nothing from the election. I pray the GOP learned something.
I’d really like the Dems to rejoin the “normals” if for no other reason that to keep the GOP from going too far off the rails.
Of course the Dems have done an excellent job playing a long game so, perhaps, it doesn’t make any difference.
KCRob, #2, the Dems have never been normal. They’ve always been a problem. Maybe not as much as radical Obama proved to be, but if you want to know more watch Dinesh’ movie Hillary’s America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party. They’ve always been vile & that’s a fact. The Republicans can police themselves. Not everyone on the Right, including myself, is a Republican. It’s really not been the GOP that won the election but the movement of part of the Tea Party that broke off to jump on Trump’s train for his permanent base. We may vote GOP. Doesn’t mean we are members. I wouldn’t belong to anything that Mitch & Lindsey run. The GOP isn’t conservative, but it’s where some conservatives can be found.
@Hanover – I think the Dems weren’t too weird back in the day… JFK would be more at home on the right these days. As former Democrat Ronald Reagan said “I’ve not left the Democrat party, the Democrat party left me:.
While it’s true the Dems are certainly not the party of the “normals”, there’s no denying their success. Regardless of who carries the GOP (or conservative) flag; no matter who holds the Oval Office or the Congress; no matter the opinion polls, we drift further left. Remorselessly.
So many people are looking for an alternative to the Democrat Party. I was shocked that so many Democrats who expressed interest in switching parties were looked down up by life-long Republicans or regarded with suspicion as possible Democrat plants. If memory serves correctly, the #NeverTrump crowd’s favorite recent president was a Democrat before he was a Republican. If the Republican elites had their way back then… the 80s would’ve been very different.
The Republicans claims of being a “big-tent” party got tested, and some balked at the realization of what that meant. But it apparently worked. So some Republicans are going to have to make up their mind as to whether they want to enjoy the benefits of being “big-tent,” or if the thought of standing shoulder-to-shoulder with the blue-collar, 10-hour shift-working hoi polloi is too nauseating for them.
And yet others will need to decide if all the people that the Trump Train has attracted (aside from the working class—which, incidentally, comprises most of the GOP in my state) are also acceptable. This includes ethnic minorities, the unchurched (and the alternately-churched); and other groups, BLTGQXYZ and unmarried or alternately-married folks included. Even in the Republican camp, there’s still a divide between urban and rural, coastal and interior denizens. And, as noted, there’s still a hesitance to accept converts from other political faiths. In many respects, Democrats and Libertarians (large- and small-‘l’) are looked upon equally with suspicion. While Dems are indeed often seen as infiltrators, Libertarians are often seen as potheads or flaky weirdoes (not without cause in some instances) and not those with whom there is much common agreement.
The good news for the incoming administration is that they are planning to emulate the Obama love machine (in the manner of how “Obama For America” [campaign organization] morphed into “Organizing For America” after the 2009 inauguration), with Kellyanne Conway likely playing a leading role. This will help tap into that grassroots support during the campaign who might feel frustrated down the road and rebuffed in their attempts to connect with more established political outlets. It will also be needed to counter the inevitable dissent-resist-protest types, who will more likely than not get their fair share or more of media attention in the coming months.