Yesterday Politico published the results of some focus groups that were held shortly after the election by a progressive group called Navigator Research. What they found was a Democratic brand in deep trouble. The focus groups were made up of voters who previously voted for Democrats but either didn’t vote at all this year or jumped parties and voted for Trump. They said they felt Democrats were too weak and too woke.
When asked to compare the Democratic Party to an animal, one participant compared the party to an ostrich because “they’ve got their heads in the sand and are absolutely committed to their own ideas, even when they’re failing.” Another likened them to koalas, who “are complacent and lazy about getting policy wins that we really need.” Democrats, another said, are “not a friend of the working class anymore.”…
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