Democrats should be nervous about Donald Trump. Well, more specifically, they should be worried about Democrats.
Yes, demographics favor the Democrats in modern presidential elections, and yes, Trump is a spectacularly flawed candidate. But you’d almost never lose money betting on the Democrats blowing a good thing.
Hillary Clinton has her own weaknesses as a candidate, as others havenoted, frequently, but this article isn’t about Clinton. This is about Democrats, the American political party that most resembles a Hollywood dark comedy about going home for the holidays.
If you start the clock in 2006, the idea of Democrats as hapless self-saboteurs might sound odd. That was the year the party captured the House, the Senate, and a majority of governorships, elevating Nancy Pelosi to the House speakership, thus making her the highest-ranking woman in U.S. government history. Two years later, Democrats elected a black first-term senator to the presidency in a landslide. They re-elected him four years later. For the full article click here
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