Recommended: Dems Are Playing Checkers While Trump Is Playing Chess

Thomas Edsall had a very good Op Ed piece in the New York Times yesterday: Dems Are Playing Checkers While Trump Is Playing Chess.  There is an old saying that if you are stuck in a hole, the first thing to do is to stop digging. It does seem to me that the Democrats, having found themselves in a hole in this last election, are still madly digging the same hole.  Hillary said once during the campaign that it was dangerous to elect a president who can be set off by a Twitter posting. Well, it seems it is in fact the Democrats who seem to overreact predictably on every Trump Twitter, and Trump knows that and uses it.

We are most of the first year through Trump's presidency, and I still don't see any evidence that Democrats have learned anything, or developed any thoughtful strategy for getting back into power.  It is beginning to look like they are simply incapable of getting out of their bubble, of abandoning their perpetual childish outrage and getting real about their problems. On the contrary, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren seem to be moving the party even further left. And I certainly don't see any evidence that the party is working to recover those working class voters that used to be their base - on either economic issues or cultural issues.

Well, Darwin's "survival of the fittest" law applies in politics as well - if they can't shape up they will disappear as a party, which is a real disaster because then who will represent the liberal point of view?