Democratic Party leaders will absolutely choose incompetence and humiliating defeat or collaboration with Trumpism rather than accommodate or encourage their activist base who actually want to fight and win. Every. Single. Time. These folks must be driven from power and from public life.
The New RepublicA party chair, when his party doesn’t control the White House, has two jobs: Raise money and (as Martin correctly said 17 months ago) to be a very public attack dog. He seems to have failed operatically at both. trib.al/2wLDoz6