The Democratic Party is Its Voters And They’re Doing Just Fine
Last week, I read an article on special primary elections to replace the deceased representative Gerry Connolly (D-VA). The post said that the race was “animated by growing frustrations with the party’s establishment” and described the race “early test of the feeling of antistablishment during the urn as the Democratic Party Caught in a tailpin on his approach to Trump. (the accent added) »In this case, I did not know that this primary was held last weekend. (No excuses, so much else and it was managed as a so-called primary of the fire house ” on an accelerated basis.) The first with which I heard about was from a handful of TPM readers who wrote to tell me about my attention, which they were presented. Impossible, in almost all the electoral coverage that we see.
On the one hand, the Democrat is “wading”, “without direction”, “lost”. Its approval numbers are dark. And then often in the same articles, you have all these intensity evidence of voters. Turn out. New activism. Many new people appear at the office. What seems to be an apparent contradiction resolves if you get your correct terms. I do not think that the Democratic Party is in a Tailpin or who wades at all. In many cases, the elected leader of the party is. But elected leadership is not the Democratic Party. The Democratic Party is its voters. Above all, these are the main voters. It is simply an understanding of the signal of what a party and what constitutes his health or his disfunction. I saw a title a few days ago which was roughly, the last nightmare of the DEMS: the primaries on this subject can see.
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