I don\u2019t see that much in the \u201cBetter Deal\u201d from the Democratic leadership today that is in any way orthogonal to what HRC was running on at this time last year. Still overly focused on the middle-class, still a little too much don\u2019t-scare-the-big-business, and most offensively, the notion that \u201cDemocrats have too often hesitated from taking on those misguided policies directly and unflinchingly – so much so that many Americans don\u2019t know what we stand for.”<\/p>\n
Horseshit.<\/p>\n
The Democratic message has been pretty much the same for a decade or two: the notion that if you work hard and play by the rules, you should be able to have a successful middle-class American life. Nothing here is substantially different. All that this amounts to is an attempt to articulate it in a way that will get some attention, because when HRC was the candidate, all anyone cared about was EMAILS EMAILS EMAILS – the complete failure of the press to examine her policy positions, or anyone\u2019s<\/em> policy positions for that matter, was not because she didn\u2019t have them, it was because it was easier to hold the camera on the Trump train wreck and offer no challenge to whatever his trained catamites in cable media said.<\/p>\n In a way, you can make a case that HRC was a fatally flawed candidate from the beginning, not because of any fault or flaws of her own, but because she would never be allowed to be anything but HILLARY, the nightmare caricature that the GOP and its amen corner at the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times (that\u2019s right I said it) and Fox and AM radio had pi\u00f1ata\u2019d for a quarter-century. HRC was a fine candidate, albeit one with Al Gore disease: the terminal earnestness of the smartest kid in the class who doesn\u2019t understand why the monkey-boy who pours milk over his head and steals out of other kids\u2019 lockers is considered an equal candidate for class president. And who then loses to the monkey even though the monkey didn\u2019t get as many votes as they did.<\/p>\n So ultimately, the challenge now for the Democrats isn\u2019t the message – although it\u2019s at the point now where it\u2019s easy to get frustrated and dispose of anything that suggests the DLC in the least, and push really hard for a left-populist vision, and I\u2019m not saying that\u2019s wrong – it\u2019s having the messengers who can sell it. Maybe Chuck Schumer is that guy. Maybe it\u2019s Kamala Harris or Cory Booker. New fresh faces that aren\u2019t carrying the baggage of decades of Republican slime. But the biggest fear is that once again, they\u2019ll decide it\u2019s going to take another white Southern male who doesn\u2019t scare off the hillbillies who aren\u2019t going to vote for him anyway. And that Crazification Factor crowd? There\u2019s no reason to fish in that pond. They\u2019re dying and the ones who aren\u2019t won\u2019t ever vote for a Democrat. Go where the votes are. Throw it where the action is. Get your voters enthused and excited and get them out to vote, and make it happen the right way.<\/p>\n But stop wasting time shooting the wounded. If anyone needs forgiveness, it\u2019s not HRC, it\u2019s a party that couldn\u2019t produce a less-tarred and more-exciting candidate with four years\u2019 advance notice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I don\u2019t see that much in the \u201cBetter Deal\u201d from the Democratic leadership today that is in any way orthogonal to what HRC was running on at this time last year. Still overly focused on the middle-class, still a little too much don\u2019t-scare-the-big-business, and most offensively, the notion that \u201cDemocrats have too often hesitated from … <\/p>\n