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To: Sam who wrote (389625)	11/24/2018 10:04:32 PM
From: Sun Tzu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 544131

As you've pointed out, the politics has been very different for the past 30 years and yet DNC clings onto the past. This is one of the good things that will come out of the new crop of Dems who just went to the House and hopefully will carry over into the Senate in 2020. The other good thing about the new blood is that it will put the party in touch with the reality on the ground. The clip below is 18-mo old, but still valid (sans the new progressive wing): A recent poll found that, for all its domination of the educated classes, two thirds (two thirds!) of respondents think the Democratic Party is out of touch with the concerns of Americans. Democrats—who dominate the jokes on late-night television, have all the best podcasts, and had all the best policy papers in the 2016 president election—currently control not a single branch of the federal government and just 16 governorships. If you want to win arguments on principle, Hamilton is your guy. If you want to win elections, however … well, maybe not so much. theatlantic.com