Winning back the white blue collar vote is key for them, but they can't do it. By the 2018 elections, President Trump will have a solid record on delivering for the blue collar people, from apprenticeships, to jobs in construction and infrastructure. No democrat could believably promise to deliver more.
Secondly, their base won't let them. (those -25 down votes) Right now, the democrat party is just trying to hold themselves together. They can't even begin to come up with a coherent strategy. The rage they are displaying now is half real, half contrived to keep the base energized and the party from dissolving.
In 2018 they will continue to be in the minority, they will even lose ground, and their rage might overflow into a crack up of the democrat party.
We need to take those rust belt states we won and focus on state elections in order to uproot the democrat party there.
The democratic platform for the blue collar person seems to be fight for $15 a hour and Obamacare. That is not very appealing for someone that was making $25 a hour with benefits.
Good analysis, Vince.
The Dem problem is they do too much navel gazing. The answer for them is to gaze outward at the people — What do they want? How can we better their lives?
“We The People” is the source of Trump’s Strength.
And to misquote H. L, Mencken. “We Democrats know what’s good for the People and they deserve to get it good and hard!”