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The Curious Decline and Uncertain Future of the Democratic Party
When President-elect Donald Trump replaces Barack Obama on January
20, the Democratic Party will find itself more removed from power than
at almost any point since the party’s creation.
Scorned by the same voters who once embraced the New
Deal, built the Great Society, and put their hope in the nation’s first
black president, Democrats are now locked out of power in Washington and
out of two-thirds of state legislative chambers across the country.
Simply put, Democrats’ once vaunted coalition of the
ascendant — younger, multiethnic, educated, and urban — failed them
in 2016, and in 2014 and 2010 before that. That coalition proved to have
major handicaps, part demographic and part geographic, that have been
hollowing out the party for years.
Democrats may find cold comfort in Hillary Clinton’s nearly 3 million popular vote lead and the fact that more people call
themselves “liberal” than ever polled. And they can, and do, fairly
protest a system of representative government that allows the government
to be so unrepresentative of the popular vote. But it will be up to
Democrats to solve their own problem within the current rules.
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Source: NBC News
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