Since losing against the most unpopular Republican candidate since, well, forever, the Democrats have had two political messages, 1) ScaryRussia, and 2) Trump Yuck!

If they thought this was going to win over the American public, they might want to rethink that.



views of the Democratic Party are about as low or lower than they were at any point during the run-up to the 2016 election...

Overall, 53% of Democratic leaners hold a favorable view of the party, down from 73% who said this in January 2017. The current ratings of the party among Democratic leaners are as low as they have been at any point in Pew Research Center surveys conducted over the past two decades.



This poll is not an outlier.

Two other recent polls, CNN/SSRS and Quinnipiac, showed roughly the same thing.



Favorable views of the Democratic Party have dropped to their lowest mark in more than a quarter century of polling, according to new numbers from a CNN poll conducted by SSRS.

Only 37% of Americans have a favorable opinion of Democrats, down from 44% in March of this year. A majority, 54%, have an unfavorable view, matching their highest mark in polls from CNN and SSRS, CNN/ORC and CNN/USA Today/Gallup stretching back to 1992.

What do you suppose could cause this potentially disastrous trend to happen?

I know some would immediately blame the shift to the left on issues such as Medicare-For-All, caused by the Berniecrat wing.

Except that Medicare-For-All has been getting increasingly more popular, as is currently far more popular than the Democratic party.

So what could be causing this?

Could it be because the Democratic leadership hates it's base?



This could well be the year the Democrats take control of the House for the first time since 2010. Of the 90 seats the party is targeting for November, just 24 need to turn blue, a prospect made all the more exciting by the Bernie Sanders-inspired deluge of progressive candidates around the country. But the DCCC is emerging as that movement’s counterweight, if not downright enemy.

Today's revelation from Colorado is just the latest example of the DCCC endorsing business-friendly centrists, usually with a losing track record, over progressives.

Elissa Slotkin in Michigan’s 8th District, Angie Craig in Minnesota’s 2nd District, Brad Ashford in Nebraska’s 2nd District, Elaine Luria in Virginia’s 2nd, to just name a few examples of former Republicans being endorsed by the DCCC over progressive candidates.

In New York’s 24th congressional district the DCCC created a primary challenger to the previously unopposed progressive candidate.

In Texas’s 7th District they publicly smeared the progressive candidate.

And just in case there was any doubt about the Democrats detesting progressives, Nancy Pelosi came out and publicly endorsed the practice.



“In terms of candidates and campaigns I don’t see anything inappropriate in what Mr. Hoyer was engaged in — a conversation about the realities of life in the race as to who can make the general election.”

Except that Pelosi is full of sh*t. In 2016, the DCCC's preferred candidates lost 23 districts that Hillary Clinton won.

After the Intercept’s story ran, the Progressive Change Campaign Committee emailed its donors to raise money for Tillemann.

“Please donate $3 to 3 progressives the DCCC is trying to defeat in upcoming primaries by putting their finger on the scale for corporate Democrats,” the email read.

The National Republican Congressional Committee, the DCCC’s counterpoint, has gleefully sent each example of activist/DCCC strife to reporters.

You don't supposed that Democratic leaning voters might not look favorably on the practice of the Democratic Party stabbing their own progressive base in the back, do you?

The Democratic Party shills think not. It seems increasingly obvious that the reason the Dems didn't do an autopsy over the past decade of electoral failure is because they knew exactly what they would find, and it would mean getting fired.

The only things saving the Dems right now is a progressive base that won't give up (for a change), and a Republican Party that most everyone hates.

