I think the traditional Democrat base is pretty alienated right now; the Democrats have relied on outrage for so long, that it takes ever more shrill protests about ever more ridiculous issues to give them traction.
I'm thinking a big political realignment is probably not too far off. The political center seems to be a yawning vacuum, just waiting to be filled.
@r9etb I agree,except I think more focus should be placed on the FACT that the Dims have now created a "outrage monster",and that monster has finally gotten off he leash and is going after them,too. It is no longer an ignored FACT that the VAST MAJORITY of the leftist "peep-pulls" leaders are in fact a protected species of uber rich selfish assholes working to increase their own wealth off the backs of the people they pretend to support.
And there really ain't no practical way of putting THAT dog back in the kennel.
I am predicting the Dims will soon be seen making efforts to reach out to the same middle-class they have held in contempt for the last 50+ years as they organized communist cadres to go after the unnamed "rich". Given that most of the middle-class dream of reaching the status of the "comfortable class" and MAYBE see their children reach the status of the Wealthy Class",I don't see them having very much luck with this.
Yeah,they have had EXCELLENT luck recruiting the Trust Fund children of the Uber Wealthy,but only because those fools were and are entirely clueless about how normal people lived,and thought that anyone who didn't own at least one paid off vacation house on a beach was "oppressed". Adult children,like the Kellogg cereal heirs. People born into so much wealth they have financial advisors on the family payroll to keep an eye on their trust fund financial advisors.
The Trust Fund Children are an excellent source of funding,but they ain't enough of them to to make up for all the voters they have lost. ALL of the bitching and bitterness you see and hear right now is coming from the middle-class and upper middle-class apparatchiks whose entire lives and careers are based on "managing the po peep-pulls",and these people are looking at a future with no jobs and no job skills. When the Dim Party dies,so does their "Golden Rings". They have NOTHING to fall back on.
Maybe
@sinkspur could be convinced to give us a insider's POV on this?
