Obama Has Collapsed the Appeal of the Democrat Party. What Next for the Donkey Dunderheads?

That emerging Democrat majority thesis sure took a whacking in this election, sheesh.

Here's Ronald Brownstein, at the Atlantic, "What Happens to the Democratic Party After Obama?":

What happens to the Democrat Party after #Obama? #Trump #TrumpTrain #DEMS #MAGA https://t.co/hxIrPqowei via @RonBrownstein

— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) January 13, 2017

The outgoing president narrowed the party’s appeal in ways that helped the GOP. Democrats may need to widen it again if they hope to recover power.

In his bittersweet farewell address this week, President Obama made a passionate case for both his policy agenda and his civic vision of a nation strengthened by diversity. But his words won’t settle the Democrats’ difficult debate about his political legacy.

Through two terms, Obama deepened the Democrats’ connection with a constellation of growing groups, namely minorities, the millennial generation, and college-educated whites, especially women. That coalition allowed him to join the ranks of Andrew Jackson and Franklin Roosevelt, the only Democrats to win a presidential popular-vote majority at least twice.

But Obama also narrowed the Democrats’ appeal, both demographically and geographically, in ways that helped Republicans seize unified control of the White House and Congress and establish their biggest advantage in state governments since the 1920s.

Both these positive and negative trends for the Democratic Party predate Obama’s first campaign, and the latter trends were accentuated by Hillary Clinton’s unique weaknesses in 2016. But Obama intensified these dynamics with a distinctive strategy that bound Democrats to the political priorities of their heavily urbanized new coalition, especially on cultural issues from gay rights to immigration reform. That came at the price of further alienating the GOP’s competing coalition of older, blue-collar, and religiously devout whites, who live largely outside of urban areas. And it was those voters who mobilized to narrowly elect Trump and preserve Republican control of Congress...

Well, it's going to be interesting to see how long leftists cling to the emerging majority thesis?

All they have to do is keep pushing the date back for majority status, and voila! Their theory is validated. Yet lots of analysts are now saying that the white working class vote is itself an emerging voting bloc, which could be a powerful swing vote in upcoming elections. Is that bloc up for grabs? At this point, most Democrats don't seem to care, despite warnings of dire political consequences to their indifference.

But we'll see. We'll see.

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