MORE BAD NEWS FOR THE DEMS – AT 10:52 A.M. ET:  It keeps building.  Once the proud party of Roosevelt, Truman, and Kennedy, the Democratic Party today is a public embarrassment, obsessed with race, gender, and ethnicity, and little else.  It's also reportedly broke.  From The Week: 

The Democratic National Committee had a rough 2017, plagued by leadership troubles, internal squabbling, and unflattering reports. To top it off, the party ended the year "dead broke," says The Intercept's Ryan Grim.

The Democratic Party is carrying more than $6 million in debt, according to year-end filings — and has just $6.5 million in the bank. Do the math, and the party is working with just over $400,000 overall. Meanwhile, the Republicans are swimming in pools of money. The Republican National Committee had raised $132 million by the end of 2017 — about twice as much as the DNC — and entered 2018 with almost $40 million to spare, with not a penny of debt.

COMMENT:  Who would you rather have running the government?  The national party is a mess.  However, at the local level it is doing better, often because some local Democratic candidates are actually sane, and have at least some belief in the United States.

I'm careful about speculation, but I do believe there is some chance the Democratic Party may collapse, with a new moderate-to-liberal party emerging as a possible replacement.  It would be healthy for the country.

February 2, 2018