“We didn’t just lose an election. This was a national rebuke. This was biblical.”
Those words were stated by Democrat strategist Chris Kofinis. And he gets it.
Democrats who think this is not a national rebuke, it is an isolated incident, an anomaly, a failure to fully articulate the Democrat message which this country hungers for? They don’t get it.
One look at what has happened over the Obama years tells the tale:
-White House – from Democrat to Republican
-Senate – from Democrat to Republican
-House – from Democrat to Republican
-Governors, from about 58% Democrat to 66% Republican
-Statehouses – from Democrat majority control to Republicans controlling 64% of them.
Let me make this very clear:
If, in the post-Obama era, Democrats who think like Chris Kofinis prevail, there is hope for a quick comeback – provided Democrats re-examine/rethink their positions on the issues that drove voters away, such as trade, illegal aliens streaming into the country, ObamaCare, etc., and recalibrate accordingly.
But if the Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren people predominate, there is an excellent likelihood that Democrats are first going to see what “national rebuke” really means.
There are two very important rules in politics: 1) no matter how bad things are they can improve, and 2) no matter how bad things are, they can get worse.
Democrats had better decide very quickly, and very wisely, which of those two they most want to be associated with.
