THIS IS RIDICULOUS – AT 7:58 A.M. ET:  Democratic Party "progressives" continue to live their illusions.  They aren't progressives, of course.  They're regressives, wanting to go back to the grand days of the sixties.   "Hey, hey, LBJ, how many kids did you kill today?"  Ah, wasn't it fun.  From The Hill: 

Democrats risk losing election after election if they focus too much on winning back white blue-collar voters from Donald Trump, according to progressives worried that young minorities are abandoning the party.

“We are not going to get back to national majorities again without these voters,” said Cornell Belcher, the top pollster who worked on both for former President Barack Obama’s campaigns. 

Belcher recently conducted focus groups in Florida and Wisconsin for the Civic Engagement Fund that point to the problems Democrats have with young millennials of color. The group, founded by progressive leader Andrea Hailey, analyzes data from past elections to increase voter engagement. 

COMMENT:  What weirdness.  Hey, don't concentrate on working people, once of the rock of the Democratic Party.  Concentrate on "millennials of color," who are also leaving the Democratic Party.  Why, we're just not left-wing enough!

Such genius.

The Democrats haven't figured out just how unpopular they are.  Sure, Obama was a "liked" president, but he wasn't particularly trusted, and his policies were rejected.  Simply trying to appeal to "millennials of color" will not bring back voters disenchanted with Democratic policies.

And new polling shows that the young people just behind the millennials are less leftist, not more leftist, than the millennials themselves.  They are more like moderate Republicans.  Take note, Democrats.  Marxism ain't exactly in.

The first rule of politics is to learn to count.  If Democrats were smart, they'd try to rebuild their party as a national party, with appeal to a broad group of voters.   Right now it's a coastal party, with some happy spots around the country where the anthropologists and multicultural-affairs professors live.

The Democrats will not win with their current, narrow strategy.  However, Republicans can lose if they do not quickly become a governing party and get the job done.  That has been the Republican failure in the past.

July 14,  2017