Source: Common Dreams
by Norman Solomon
“A pair of quotes, separated by eight years, spotlight a chronic political mentality at the top of the Democratic Party: ‘The path to victory in a state like Michigan, Harris campaign officials are betting, is through suburban counties that are home to many college-educated and white voters,’ the New York Times reported three weeks ago. ‘For every blue-collar Democrat we lose in western Pennsylvania, we will pick up two moderate Republicans in the suburbs in Philadelphia. And you can repeat that in Ohio and Illinois and Wisconsin,’ Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer said in July 2016. The same basic approach of Democratic Party elites that first opened the door to the White House for Donald Trump has done it again. After losing a national election, political parties sometimes muster the wisdom to compile an ‘autopsy’ report, assessing what went wrong and what changes are needed for the future.” (11/07/24)
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/failures-of-democratic-party