Blue wave isn’t coming

For those who are hoping for a blue wave in 2018 midterms and beyond, it’s unlikely to come. It’s not because of Trump, but it’s because Democratic Party is disintegrating and Trump will profit again by driving wedge issues. It’s unlikely Democrats will win the presidency in 2020 or has majority by 2022. Democratic Party now is more fragmented than ever and has no unifying leader. The ones we have now are more polarizing figures than a unifier. Democrats have failed over time and again to influence their base to turn up in local and state elections, has lost more senate and congressional seats, state governorships. It’s due to their own doing - dems lacked strategy and tactics unlike Republicans who pandered to their base of conservatives and disenfranchised, focused on a long term plan to gain majority in both houses. Rep used this advantage systematically to disrupt and block any policy decisions from executive branch and even challenged legislative branch over the last 2 democratic administrations. When it was time for dem executive branch to go all out war on this crap, they chickened out and essentially stood in as lame duck. Coming back to Democratic Party now -the moderates in party are ostracized, base is further to the left and they lack the understanding that governing is a legislative process and a presidency alone can’t achieve that. All those Bernie Bros and Hillary haters didn’t realize that and fubar’ed 2016. The ones winning dem primaries now have little to no policy and governing experience. These idiots want the old guards like Pelosi gone, yet unwilling to learn or how to strategize and look at bigger picture to be an effective legislative body. For the same reasons It’s unlikely these idiots collectively can work together be a majority in both houses and rewrite the critical policies like universal health care, affordable college, immigration reform. Because any of these laws are hard to reach consensus across the aisle, even if party leader proposes these laws fringe Democrats will vote against common sense consensus bill and would want all shiny things like pathway to citizenship for DACA folk and illegal immigrants, more flexible Agri-working visas etc in an omnibus reform which Republicans won’t allow. I do support most of those causes too, not just because I am liberal because it’s just cause, a realistic approach and more fiscally responsible than spending shit load of money deporting them and building some shitty wall that doesn’t work. But liberals don’t understand this so they always lose focus with all new shiny causes go with the guy who talks rhetoric but has no coherent policy this ostracizes independents and moderate conservatives, further fragments the dem party and gives way for Republicans to win in elections. So call me a cynic, but realistically - I expect 2018 midterm to be more or less same and again a republican presidency in 2020 and a republican majority 2022 midterms.