US Presidental Elections 2020: Democratic party must wake up out of slumberland and do a better job at putting a winning strategy and plan together, if they want to win the election

The Atlantic writes - "If there’s any consolation to the realization of terrible fears, of worst-case scenarios springing to life, it’s that they are invigorating. Donald Trump’s presidency has rocked a long-complacent Democratic Party like nothing in recent history. Liberals, with their confidence that the trajectory of the country points in their direction, never had quite as much practice as conservatives in expressing their anger. That’s what makes the “Resistance”—the many marches, the seething hostility at town-hall meetings, the anti-Trump placards shouting at passersby from bungalow windows—a transformational break in the pattern.

Democratic Party. Presidential hopefuls already strive to anticipate its wishes. Elected officials have restructured their political calculus to avoid getting on its wrong side. The feistiness and agitation of the moment are propelling the party to a new place.

To win the Democratic presidential nomination, it helps to secure the African American vote. But another path to victory involves rallying white voters with a populist bent. This can create an uncomfortable dynamic in presidential primaries, where race vies with class to become the defining concern of the party. Politicians rarely vocalize the tension. But the socialism of Bernie Sanders—which hindered his efforts to explain the centrality of race to American life—made this split less subterranean than usual."

But where? The question unnerves Democrats, because the party has no scaffolding. All the dominant leaders of the last two generations—the Clintons, Barack Obama—have receded. Defeat discredited the party’s foundational strategy—or, at the very least, exposed it as a wishful description of a more distant future, rather than a clear plan for victory in the present. Resistance has given the Democrats the illusion of unity, but the reality is deeply conflicted. Two of the party’s largest concerns—race and class—reside in an increasing state of tension, a tension that will grow as the party turns toward the next presidential election.

To produce a governing majority, the party will need to survive an unsettling reckoning with itself.

Donald Trump didn’t just prevail over the Democrats; he called into doubt their old truths."

Note EU-Digest: Change has therefore become even more urgent for the Democratic party. It will have to come up with a clear cut strategy, to not only win the election, but also have a very specific plan,  which it should reveal to the voters, as to how it intends to pull the US out of the economic and social disaster the country finds itself in.  So far it has not done so.

All this will require very strong leadership and vision - and it might even require a major internal political shake-up at the upcoming democratic convention, to accomplish this.

America as a nation deserves a change for the better.

A return to the status quo is not the answer.

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