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'The house is burning down': Ryan, set to challenge Pelosi, fears for Democratic Party | Fox NewsRep. Tim Ryan said on Fox Business Network’s “Mornings with Maria” that President-elect Donald Trump’s victory – combined with the GOP protecting its majorities in the House and Senate – sent a clear signal to lawmakers that “working-class” Americans had “flipped their middle finger to the establishment.”
“I am pulling the fire alarm right now, is what I’m doing in the Democratic Party,” Ryan said of his challenge to Pelosi. “I believe we are in denial of what’s happened, and I’m pulling the fire alarm because the house is burning down.”
Ryan is a common sense type of guy.
It's a "win win" for the democrats to have him replace Pelosi.
'The house is burning down': Ryan, set to challenge Pelosi, fears for Democratic Party | Fox News
Have no idea if this guy is any good but he is right on these two points
1) One the party is in trouble
2) the Party elite have no idea that the party is in trouble.
Both parties are in trouble. That seems to me to be the only way to read this election.
It's the first time that seemingly most of the people who voted for the President elect don't know whether he'll do a good job and have no idea what to expect, but simply voted that way because they were mad and wanted to break things; namely, politics as usual.
It's our great shame and terrible danger that they had to use that ****ing pile of **** to do it.
'The house is burning down': Ryan, set to challenge Pelosi, fears for Democratic Party | Fox News
Have no idea if this guy is any good but he is right on these two points
1) One the party is in trouble
2) the Party elite have no idea that the party is in trouble.
Ryan is a common sense type of guy.
It's a "win win" for the democrats to have him replace Pelosi.
As flawed analysis goes, this one is about the most flawed that I've seen in awhile.The Democrats are not in trouble.
The Republicans are in trouble.
Why?
Because short of deporting all illegal aliens .. and most of their offspring born here (retroactive modification of citizenship by mere birth) ..
.. It won't be long before a Democrat will win the White House (FL and, soon TX!) and Congress ..
.. And once they make all 22+ million illegal aliens citizens, who'll, as we intelligently know, vote Democrat ..
.. The Republicans, as we know them, won't ever see power again.
The Repubs dodged a bullet this year, and though they dodged it well, the inevitability clock is still ticking.
'The house is burning down': Ryan, set to challenge Pelosi, fears for Democratic Party | Fox News
Have no idea if this guy is any good but he is right on these two points
1) One the party is in trouble
2) the Party elite have no idea that the party is in trouble.
The same was said about the republican party being in trouble up in flames dead etc even less than a month ago. They are not in trouble, they are doing like the republican party, they are shifting polarity and demographics.
Considering this election democrats have been the pro free trade, anti tariff, pro war party, I see by the time trump leaves office the democrats will be a conservative party again and the republicans a liberal party, with plenty of people abandoning ship while many stay loyal to their party, it is like the southern move all over again.
I think a lot of it is over reaction to a very close election loss caused by a very flawed presidential candidate. That candidate who by the way received more votes that the other guy. Whose party gained two senate seats and six house seats. Without that baggage laden, very flawed candidate at the head of the ticket, who knows what might have happen?
The biggest mistake the Democrats made was picking who would be their nominee four years in advance without regard or thinking that things might change. That circumstances and situation would be different in 2016 than in 2012.
Rebuilding from the ground up, no need. Although I do agree that the Democrats need some younger blood in their leadership position and perhaps some fresh new ideas. They also need to reach out to middle America, the same as the GOP needs to do. Both parties are in trouble, the only thing that is saving them is the two party system. The Republicans and Democrats have a monopoly.
Over half of all America view both parties unfavorably. 60% of Americans have a negative view of Republicans and 55% of the Democrats according to Gallup. In 2012 35% of the electorate identified themselves as Democrats to 30% for the Republicans. 2016 numbers show 32% Democratic, 27% Republican. Needless to say, independents rose from 34% to 40% over those four years.
The fact is everything had to go perfect for Trump to win this time around, it did. This election was as close as it gets. There was no thumping or shellacking, there was a squeaker. Perhaps we should start treating it as such.
No actually the biggest thing the D's did wrong was depriving the people of choice by running a coronation rather than a primary.
Picking the wrong queen candidate came after in magnitude of failure of the elite class.
BTW 290 votes verses 230 votes is not all that close.
Actually.
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