“Democrats in Disarray” has the sound of a handy media meme, somewhat akin to “Republicans in Retreat,” and perhaps just as reliable. Mainstream media outlets used the latter quite a bit in 2009 and 2010, just before Republicans scored their biggest midterm win in a century and reset state-level legislatures for a generation. Beware the meme, dudes.
In this case, though, the Wall Street Journal could be on more solid ground with the former. Today, the WSJ argues that not only are Democrats clearly not connecting with voters, they aren’t even connecting much with each other. Failure in this case has a thousand fathers, contra to conventional wisdom, and all of them apparently clueless:
Still reeling from its loss in November, the party has found little consensus on a message or direction. Frustrations abound with Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem…
