If they had been smart in the spring of 2017, they would have formed up...gotten a joint message, and pushed forward for a new party without Hillary or Obama. Instead, they’ve wasted 15 months now. I don’t see their funding pot filling by November, and they still don’t realize the need for one comprehensive message from the party.
I honestly think a huge part of their problem is that now that the MSM has so little power, and everything is so well vetted and fact checked (relative to the past), that not enough people buy any real solutions they bring to the table. Their only draw is “vote for us because we hate trump too.”
That’s not enough to win.
“they still don’t realize the need for one comprehensive message from the party.”
I think they realize the need for a single message, but given their constituents what would that message be? Blacks want it to be about blacks. Same for the alphabet people. Speaking of the alphabet people, each letter is a totally different constituency and even they don’t play well together. Then there are the vile ticks who hang onto the party for the blood the party lets them suck out of the rest of us; a message that resonates with them will turn off just about everybody else. Politics used to be about finding a message that attracts 51% of the voters. Now it’s about dividing the vote such that you have 51% of what’s left over. But continuing to promise the same stuff time after time and then not delivering it is finally costing the Democrats their coalition.
When the Democratic constituency was all the (horribly oppressed, of course) white and black workers the message was easy and they delivered on it time after time. But those same voters are now all evil to the new constituents; you know, the constituents who can’t stand each other and have nothing in common...those constituents.
Their one comprehensive message is “We hate Trump (and his voters)!”