What the Democratic Party Doesn’t Seem to Get

Democracy in the U.S. is circling the drain. The Grand Old Party has become unabashedly fascist, Congress has abdicated its constitutional power of oversight, and the Supreme Court has turned into a supreme enabler of authoritarianism. But it’s not just our elected and appointed officials who’ve lost track of what democracy is and what it requires. Many who voted in the last election seem to be living in an alternate reality, and those who sat it out seem strangely incapable of realizing what’s at stake until some executive order hits them on the head like a cudgel. At least at the present time, however, there appears to be enough pro-democracy voters out there (from both parties) who are politically engaged and of sound enough mind that a winning coalition might be assembled. Why then can’t the Democrats seem to get it together? Democratic Party logo surrounded by question marks A big part of the problem, as I see it, is that the Democratic Party has an image problem related to...