Trumps base is starting to erode.

[Yonadav]

I disagree. They weren' t fed up with the ( D ) party - they simply didn't like Hillary.


The ( R )s could have ran the corner fencepost and won the election.

---

%65 wool??


That must be the part that goes over their eyes....

I never understood the Hilary hate.

It's not just Hillary. It's the entire 'Hillary wing' of the party. For example, Howard Shcultz is a Hillary Dem. There are parties within the parties. The New Democrats are a party within the Democratic Party that pretty much took over the party in 1992 with Bill Clinton. The think tank of the New Democrats is The Progressive Policy Institute. That name is pretty misleading, because The Progressive Policy Institute is basically a centrist think tank. In fact, one of the founders (Al Frum) has said that he named it the Progressive Policy Institute so that the media wouldn't be calling it the Democrat's conservative think tank.

I like Bill Clinton. Most people do. But the New Dems, who are a minority of the party, have had a stranglehold on the party for a very long time. Some of the policies of the New Dems have had bad long term consequences, such as admitting China to the WTO. The New Dems tend to talk a progressive game, and then decide in favor of Wall Street. They talk a big game about supporting organized labor, and then they pull the rug out from under organized labor. They are notorious for saying that they support policies that they throw no meaningful support behind. They have been pretty thoroughly corrupted by their corporate sponsors. Hillary's corporate sponsors were so powerful that she basically felt that she owned the party. 

The public perception of the New Democrats is so bad that New Democrat contenders for the 2020 nomination are distancing themselves from New Democrat positions-- which is sort of typical of New Democrats. Talking a progressive game while being a centrist in practice is what they do. Progressive voters should always check for New Democrat affiliations and positions before supporting a candidate. And as I live and breath, Cory Booker is a New Democrat. He sells himself as a Congressional Progressive Caucus kind of guy, but he's New Dem fraud.