Trump’s ‘big tent’ – room for some Democrats?

During the first press conference the president has given since last week’s election of Trump, Obama was asked what advice he would give to Democrats on the direction of the party.

With the advantage of hindsight, the free flowing accusation against many Democrat supporters is that they live “in a bubble”. Perhaps it also doesn’t wish to understand, because that would mean acknowledging its role in enabling the presidency of Donald Trump.

Sanders was saying statement that many communities were greatly disturbed on Trumps Presidential campaign. While Hillary Clinton is now winning the popular vote, the 2016 election saw the highest third-party vote total in 16 years, according to the Wall Street Journal – a reflection of voter dissatisfaction with both major-party candidates. “That is the reality of America we do not talk about”. If the president-elect compels the GOP Congress to cave to Trump’s spending proposals-and there is a lot more than just infrastructure on the horizon-what would be the point of the GOP? They need to go back to the base and raise a new pyramid from the ground up, with a new generation of candidates and activists and motivators.

“We have got to reevaluate how we are communicating our message because on the ideas we are right”, he said on C-Span, the television channel that covers congressional proceedings.

“The vast majority of the American people are on our side”, Sanders said. None of these positions jibe with the stated philosophy of the party leader.

Writing for left-leaning Vanity Fair in April, T.A Frank predicted exactly that – the Democratic Party’s place in “the world of Trumpism and Clintonism”.

Have you seen that protest sign that says, “Not My President?”

On the show, Sanders, who did not win the 2016 Democratic nomination, said Trump was able to touch a nerve with the working class in a way the Democratic Party did not.

Sanders, who sat down on the sofa to chants of “Bernie!”

In the wake of Donald Trump’s shocking electoral victory last week, the Democratic Party has been plunged suddenly and unexpectedly into an existential crisis. Weeks early, he saw Iowa Senate candidate Bruce Braley speak in Iowa, and writes that his “remarks, which consisted of tepid Democratic centrist rhetoric, were just not resonating with people in the room”.

Sanders ends his speech by talking about climate change, a topic he has frequently criticized Trump on, since the President-elect doesn’t actually believe in it. Chances are that we, as a species, won’t end up taking the necessary measures to make any sort of meaningful change no matter what, but backing out of the Paris climate agreement – as Trump is reportedly already trying to do – certainly isn’t going to help.

Sanders wondered if the newly elected US President would find the strength to fight the real enemies, such as oil industry magnates and pharmaceutical corporations, or would he steer the anger of the majority towards the less fortunate, the immigrants, the poor, the helpless.

However, the “bubble test” as author Charles Murray would call it, remains useful in understanding the Democratic Party’s 2016 loss.

Only eight Republicans are among the 33 senators up for re-election in two years, and only one, Nevada’s Dean Heller, is in a state Clinton carried.

Among the potential challengers is Ryan, seen as the leader of a younger generation of lawmakers.

“People judge people and sometimes there’s a little inkling of accuracy and most of the times not”, he said. But Democrats have weakened to an unusual degree over two presidential terms.

“I think we should assume there won’t be any amusing business”, Blunt said. This is what representative democracy does; it constantly builds coalitions and weighs the competing interests of various factional groups.

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“Who knows and who will ever know”, Sanders answered.