Today’s quote comes to us from Doug Schoen, lifelong Democrat and polling maven for the Clinton administration.
Here, from his stint on Harris Faulkner’s Fox News Channel show on Thursday, is how he views today’s Democrat Party:
“Bernie Sanders, AOC are indeed the leaders of the party. All we heard from them, and you saw it on the screen and you said it, Harris, is anti-Trump, no positive program. Certainly, no centrist programs and I would argue that my party is out of touch with the mainstream, with the ideas that elected Donald Trump.
“He is moving very quickly and very aggressively, sometimes a little further than perhaps the electorate would want, but my party just bashes and trashes and with AOC and Bernie Sanders at the helm, I think we’re only running on opposition to the Republicans, no ideas, no plans,”
“Moderate voices like my own, which were ascendant when I was working along with a team for Bill Clinton in the White House between 1994 and 2001, we were, I think, ascendant, and he ran on cutting the budget, balancing it, getting rid of the debt and the deficit, reforming welfare, tough on crime.
“People who speak that message, which is equally relevant today, are marginalized, just not heard and frankly the party has now been taken over by the far left in ways that it makes it unrecognizable to those of us who were in the rational center.”
That analysis is 100% correct. My only addition would be the inclusion of some of the other “leaders” of today’s Democrat Party who have moved it into downtown Untenableville. They would include what is left of the formerly-viable/now pathetic Chuck Schumer, Jamie Raskin and jasmine crockett, to name a few.
I award Doug Schoen Quote Of the Day honors for his honest, and dead-on accurate, appraisal of what used to be a major mainstream party.
