The Democrats’ Problems Are Bigger Than You Think
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/05/opinion/democrats-trump-winning.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/05/opinion/democrats-trump-winning.html
Biden has become a scapegoat for the Democrats. The party’s real problem is a consistent tolerance of obvious losers.
https://www.ft.com/content/92d26974-3fe3-4297-afc2-3da41c732975
If there was a sin, a Fall, it was the Democrats’ choice of Hillary Clinton as their presidential candidate in 2016. World history turned on that singular act of pigheadedness. Polls were telling the party that voters disliked her. She had already fluffed a huge lead over the young Barack Obama in the primaries of eight years earlier. True, her low reputation has never been fair. She isn’t a crook or much more of a hypocrite than other politicians, just one of life’s plodders. But the world is what it is. Democrats chose to ignore the objective fact of her unpopularity, and the outcome is a Trump era that was probably avoidable.
https://www.ft.com/content/92d26974-3fe3-4297-afc2-3da41c732975
If there was a sin, a Fall, it was the Democrats’ choice of Hillary Clinton as their presidential candidate in 2016. World history turned on that singular act of pigheadedness. Polls were telling the party that voters disliked her. She had already fluffed a huge lead over the young Barack Obama in the primaries of eight years earlier. True, her low reputation has never been fair. She isn’t a crook or much more of a hypocrite than other politicians, just one of life’s plodders. But the world is what it is. Democrats chose to ignore the objective fact of her unpopularity, and the outcome is a Trump era that was probably avoidable.