Michael Barone has an article in today's WSJ under the title: Why The Democratic Majority Hasn't Emerged . Barone, of course, is an extremely knowledgeable guy about American politics. In the article he attempts to address the question of how the Democrat Party "find[s] itself in this pickle." "This pickle" is the fact that, having convinced themselves that their inevitable generational dominance was just around the corner after eight transformational Obama years, they proceeded to lose to Donald Trump in 2016 and now stand an excellent chance of doing so once again in 2020. Here's the "pickle" for the Dems, as Barone sees it:
UPDATED: The Righteous Mind
UPDATED: The Righteous Mind
UPDATED: The Righteous Mind
Michael Barone has an article in today's WSJ under the title: Why The Democratic Majority Hasn't Emerged . Barone, of course, is an extremely knowledgeable guy about American politics. In the article he attempts to address the question of how the Democrat Party "find[s] itself in this pickle." "This pickle" is the fact that, having convinced themselves that their inevitable generational dominance was just around the corner after eight transformational Obama years, they proceeded to lose to Donald Trump in 2016 and now stand an excellent chance of doing so once again in 2020. Here's the "pickle" for the Dems, as Barone sees it: