THE DEMOCRATIC BUBBLE – AT 9:40 A.M. ET:  Increasingly, the once-great Democratic Party seems to be living in its own bubble.  Despite the loss of about 1,000 legislative seats under Barack Obama, it still imagines itself to be the party of the people, of the masses, of the majority.

Measuring Democratic attitudes confirms the illusion.  Get this poll, from Rasmussen: 

Most voters agree that Christians living in Muslim-majority countries are mistreated for their religion. But Democrats are more likely to think Muslims are mistreated in America than to think Christians are persecuted in the Islamic world.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 62% of Likely U.S. Voters believe most Christians living in the Islamic world are treated unfairly because of their religion. Just 17% disagree, while 21% more are undecided. (To see survey question wording, click here.)

These findings have changed little in surveys since early 2015.

By comparison, 39% feel most Muslims living in the United States are treated unfairly because of their religion. That’s up from 31% last year and is the highest finding in surveys to date. A plurality (46%) still believes Muslims are not treated unfairly because of their faith, while 15% more are not sure.

Fifty-six percent (56%) of Democrats, however, believe most Muslims in this country are mistreated, a view shared by only 22% of Republicans and 39% of voters not affiliated with either major party. Fewer Democrats (47%) think most Christians are mistreated in the Islamic world, compared to 76% of GOP voters and 64% of unaffiliateds.

COMMENT:  Some of those figures undoubtedly stem from the fact that the Democratic Party has within it minority groups who've been taught to believe in the cult of the victim.  And it attracts "youth" who are taught in left-wing colleges to believe that Muslims are perpetual victims of Western oppression.

Not exactly the party of Roosevelt, Truman, and Kennedy.

February 8,  2017