Yes, you can have a few drinks to celebrate the Democratic Party’s destruction. When the left has to spend $20 million on how to speak to American male voters, you know they’ve bottomed out. They don’t know what people think. The Obama era was supposed to be the end of conservatism; it wasn’t. We’ll get back to that in a second, but while we should celebrate liberal America being incapable of beating us right now, we can’t get too drunk.
The reason is that in 2010, just two years after Barry's grand arrival to the White House, the Tea Party wave crashed into Washington, DC. The Democratic Party's atrophy began under Obama, who didn’t do much to strengthen state parties. It’s not “sexy” work, but it’s where you keep your candidate bench healthy. Instead, the GOP reached levels of political power at the state, federal, and local levels not seen since the 1930s.
White working-class voters were ours. Now, it’s non-white working-class voters and heavy swaths of the Latino vote. With Black men and Asians—Donald J. Trump has been transformative and a force for the better in Republican politics—Trump was able to take the Obama coalition away from liberals. Mitt Romney, John McCain, and other traditional Republicans could have never done this. The Rust Belt and the Blue Wall were in play when Trump was on the ticket.
That’s not the case for the old-school, and now dead, GOP establishment. Trump came in and obliterated them. Those anti-Trump Republicans who still fret over personality still don’t get it, and it’s sad: we have a multi-racial working-class party that’s unbeatable, but they can’t see the forest for the trees. What is annoying is that the GOP remains the most significant obstacle to legislative success on the Hill.
The Democrats are leaderless and without an appealing agenda. Yes, some know what the problems are and the tough discussions ahead, but this voter base is content with whining, ranting, and not having those discussions, a symptom of the left's sense of gross entitlement. This is the window the GOP must exploit. Democrats are still seething over Trump getting the best of them in two of the past three elections.
For now, our political opposition is in a terrible state of disarray. Their communications have collapsed, their base is too small to win elections, and their insatiable desire to attack and talk down to those with whom they disagree will forever hamstring their efforts at rebuilding. Yet, as with anything, a lot can change during midterms. We can’t bank on Democrats being lost in the wilderness forever.
Enjoy the moment, but don’t get blacked out. We have work to do.
