If you want to steal a seat in a red district, it might help not to run a candidate who carries a major creepiness factor and seems to be doing a Barack Obama impersonation whenever he talks - but without any of Obama's charisma.
But panicky Democrats are right: It's not enough just to run against Donald Trump when the voters don't think too highly of you either, and when they know full well that if they put you back in charge, all they're going to get is more of the policies that gave us eight years of piss-poor growth, mounting debt and record low labor participation rates.
Democrats don't think like that, though. At least not most of them. They still seem to think the whole problem is mere branding: