Today on Morning Joe, hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski led their panel in an exercise. It began with a summation of the Dems' current status as a drastically weakened bi-coastal organization that can't seem to gain traction in "flyover country," and it ended with oft-repeated concerns that the left has no leadership and no message.
That's partially true. The Dems are at their lowest level of power since the 1920's and I've previously referred to them as rudderless.
However, it's not because they don't have leadership or a message. It's because they don't have leadership or a message that hasn't already been rejected by most of the country.
Make no mistake. There are powerful Democrats in leadership roles. You know their names. Nancy Pelosi, Fauxcahontas, Chuck Schumer, Kamala Harris, Bernie Sanders, and Keith Ellison are all people with staunch left-wing beliefs - any one of whom could make a play for the Dems' Iron Throne. Heck, they even spent much of the last six months trying to make Chelsea Clinton "happen."
The problem that the Morning Joe crew has almost, but not quite, managed to identify is that every single one of those people is selling something that's already been rejected. They are, to a man, pushing single-payer healthcare, higher taxes, race and class warfare, and wealth redistribution on a massive scale. Not one of them has a message that's substantively different than what an array of Democrats offered in the last three national elections.
They are - all of them - evidence that Dems have failed to learn the lesson of the last 10 years.
The more they support their rabid leftist base, the more they'll be shunned by middle America. ...Yet they refuse to change course.
Here's Joe and the gang:
