In the weeks since Donald Trump won the US election, Democrat supporters, amidst much gnashing of teeth, have offered up a range of post-mortems. While The View host Sunny Hostin and MSNBC presenter Joy Reid have blamed Kamala’ Harris’s defeat, predictably enough, on American ‘racism’ and ‘misogyny’, others have been more constructive. Last week, onetime Obama strategist Steve Schale said in an op-ed that the party – ‘a shell of itself’ – had turned off groups like Hispanics with ‘socialism talk’ and special-interest issues irrelevant to their lives. Democrat veteran Bernie Sanders echoed him, calling out his party for becoming one of ‘identity politics’ rather than trying to appeal to the American working class. While Schale calls urgently for ‘structural changes’, the Wall Street Journal is more precise in its analysis: ‘The Democrats Need Another Bill Clinton.’
Clinton was able to halve the national deficit, foster record numbers of new businesses, and bring unemployment down to its lowest level in 28 years
You can see the WSJ’s point.
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