ARE DEMS GETTING SMART? – AT 12:18 P.M. ET:  It's highly unlikely, but it could happen.  We must be on guard. 

The Dems are trying to come up with a strategy, and, this is the big news, an actual program.  It's hard when your party has been the lead member of the Church of Perpetual Grievance.   

In addition, some party leaders are attempting to bring a bit of maturity.  From the New York Post: 

Democrats said they will counter President Trump’s “The Art of the Deal” with “A Better Deal.”
Party leaders will unveil a new economic battle plan on Monday that will highlight job-training programs, renegotiating trade deals and a $15 an hour “living wage” as they try to focus their message to voters, the Washington Post reported.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said his party can’t blame anyone else for their devastating defeat to Trump in November.

“When you lose to somebody who has 40 percent popularity, you don’t blame other things – Comey, Russia – you blame yourself,” Schumer (D-NY) said in an interview with the newspaper posted online Saturday night. “So what did we do wrong? People didn’t know what we stood for, just that we were against Trump. And still believe that.”

The Democrats will announce the new slogan – “A Better Deal: Better Jobs, Better Wages, Better Future” – and their upgraded platform of economic proposals drafted during strategy sessions over the past few months on Monday afternoon.

COMMENT:   Chuck is right.  The party must blame itself, and its clueless candidate.  But how much influence Schumer has is debatable.  He represents the more traditionalist wing.  The Democratic Party nationally is led by a chairman, Tom Perez, who curses in public, with children present.  His vice chairman, Keith Ellison, is a former member of the Nation of Islam, who claims he has changed.

The party's new great hope for president – there's a new flavor every month – is Senator Kamala Harris of California, who, like Tom Perez, sometimes flavors her "speeches" with foul language, and is known for rude behavior.

So how much the party has learned must be questioned.  I, for one, do not think Chuck Schumer and his faction will be leaders much longer.

July 23, 2017