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Posted: Mar 25, 2017 12:01 AM

Its fine for Democrats to be upset that Donald Trump schlonged Hillary Clinton, but the reality is that they spent the entirety of the Obama years getting their brains beaten in. When Obama first took office, they held the House and 60 seats in the Senate and controlled the majority of governorships and state legislatures. Now, the GOP has a large majority in the House, 52 seats in the Senate, and the majority of state legislatures and governorships.

Democrats went from thinking they were on the verge of a permanent political ascendancy to the worst political bloodbath in American history. Put another way, Democrats are the George Armstrong Custer of political parties, and yet that doesnt seem to have inspired any soul searching at all. So here are some questions Democrats should be asking themselves right now:

1) Hillary Clinton? Seriously? Hillary had a potential FBI indictment hanging over her head even as Democrats nominated her. Shes unlikable, not particularly accomplished for a presidential candidate, campaigned on a radically liberal agenda, has corruption issues, and her campaign pitch could be boiled down to Vote For Me Because Im A Woman. On top of that, she was already so widely despised that she turned out Republicans. You could make a decent argument that shes the single worst presidential candidate of all time, yet she won anyway. Of course, you could make the argument that a radical socialist like Bernie Sanders would have been worse, but even if so, why do the Democrats have so few quality candidates? Where are the blue chip candidates?

2) Do Democrats Really Want To Be The One Size Of Liberalism Fits All Party? Were in an age where people have almost infinite choice when it comes to TV, music, clothing, groceries, websites and just about everything else. Yet, the standard Democratic position is that the federal government needs to be in charge of everything so San Francisco values can be forced on everyone. Dont like gay marriage in your state? Too bad. Dont want Obamacare? Too bad. You are going to get it and LIKE IT. Democrats are so proud that they believe in choice when it comes to abortion - even though the father and the baby have no choice. So why not allow other people to live like they choose?

3) Do Democrats Really Want To Be The Intolerant Fun Police? Over the last few years, Democrats have turned into sour, anger puritans shaking their fingers at everyone who steps outside their extremely narrowly approved set of liberal values. Weve actually gotten to the point where Democrats cant even tolerate OTHER PEOPLE listening to non-liberal viewpoints on campus. Whatever happened to being open-minded? Whatever happened to tolerating other viewpoints? Dont Democrats need to learn how to do that again?

4) Do Democrats Represent Anyone Other Than The Most Liberal Americans? If youre a man, Democrats accuse you of perpetuating rape culture. If youre white, they accuse you of being privileged. If youre a Christian, they accuse you of being as bad as radical Islamists. If youre a non-liberal woman, youre constantly told that women who hold you in contempt and dont represent your views speak for you. If youre moderate, for all intents and purposes, they tell you to shut your mouth and do as youre told. Democrats would rather offend a million Americans in flyover country than hack off a liberal college professor. At some point, if you want to represent people, you have to at least make an attempt to address issues they care about in a way that they appreciate. Democrats have abandoned this idea and have started explaining to Americans that theyre too stupid to know whats good for them. Thats not how you make friends and influence people.

5) Has The Democratic Party Gotten Too Extreme? Democrats from the Clinton years would think todays Democrats are nuts and Democrats from, say, 40 years ago would vote Republican before theyd vote for the radicalism that has been embraced by todays Democrat Party. Gay marriage, men in the womens restrooms, detaching gender from genitalia, trigger warnings, safe spaces, cultural appropriation, white privilege, open borders these are radical shifts for the Democrat Party that have happened in a relatively short period of time. At what point do you start to wonder if your party has moved too far, too fast?

6) Can The Democratic Party Continue To Advocate For More Spending? Democrats seem to start every discussion with the assumption that theres an infinite amount of money for them to divvy out to liberal interest groups and for votes. Meanwhile, were almost 20 trillion dollars in debt and adding more to that amount every year - and we are now reliant on nations like China and Saudi Arabia to keep loaning us money so we can pay Social Security and Medicare. This is an unsustainable situation and, whether by choice or necessity, the amount of money the federal government spends must drop substantially in the next decade or two. Can the Democrat Party continue to function without being able to give away taxpayer dollars? One way or another, were going to find out.

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