Yeah, it's pretty much a given that the Democratic Party will fight a Civil War of sorts for the next couple years.
Wake me when it's over. I mostly curious about what they will coalesce around for 2020. Sent from my iPhone > On Nov 11, 2016, at 12:43, BILROJ via Centroids: The Center of the Radical > Centrist Community <[email protected]> wrote: > > Washington Post > > The decimation of the Democratic Party, visualized > By Philip Bump November 10 at 5:22 PM > There's a certain type of pedant who gets mad if you use the word "decimated" > inaccurately, the accurate usage being that it refers to the culling of a > tenth of something, hence the prefix deci- which, as we all know, is a > Latin-born numeric reference blah blah blah pedants am i right > > When I use the term "decimate" in reference to what's happened to the > Democratic Party in the era of Barack Obama, I admit that I am using the word > in a way that would annoy those same pedants. After all, the number of > Democrats in Congress and in state leadership positions has dropped far more > than 10 percent since 2008. > > Chris Cillizza wrote about the sorry state of the Democratic bench after > Tuesday, pointing out that a bad situation got much worse with the Donald > Trump-driven failure of the party at the polls. Think of a political party > like an Army. To have effective generals, you need to bring leaders up > through the ranks. If everyone keeps getting killed off on the first Tuesday > after the first Monday of any given November, you're not going to be able to > win many battles. The Democrats gained two Senate seats -- in a year that it > was long assumed they would regain control of the chamber. > > Since 2008, this is what the Democratic decimation has looked like. (Data > sources are below.) > > > Two patterns to note. The first is that the Democrats surged into power in > 2006 and 2008, winning seats in elections that would normally have leaned to > the Republicans. So some of the losses since 2008 are a function of reversion > to norm, light-red areas going red once again. The second is that federal and > state races largely correlate. A good year for the GOP nationally tends to > make a good year at all levels. > > It can be hard to see the extent to which the Democratic collapse has > occurred. Here is the percentage change in each case since 2008. > > > That whistling sound you hear is the party Thelma-and-Louiseing. > > Two days after its candidate for the presidency suffered a stunning loss, the > tension within the party became uncontainable. The Huffington Post reports > that at a party meeting on Thursday, a staffer named Zach yelled at Donna > Brazile, who took over as chair following the resignation of Debbie Wasserman > Schultz this summer. > > "Why should we trust you as chair to lead us through this?" he said, > according to HuffPo's Jennifer Bendery. He went on to accuse Brazile of > having "backed a flawed candidate," Hillary Clinton, and having "plotted > through this to support your own gain and yourself." > > "You are part of the problem," Zach reportedly said. > > We tend to focus on the loss of the presidency as the example of Democratic > failure. That's blinkered. Since 2008, by our estimates, the party has shed > 870 legislators and leaders at the state and federal levels -- and that > estimate may be on the low side. As Donald Trump might put it, that's > decimation times 50. > > No wonder Zach got mad. > > -- > -- > Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community > <[email protected]> > Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism > Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <[email protected]> Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
