GOOD ADVICE FROM A FAMOUS NAME – AT 10:47 A.M. ET:  And surprising advice for the Democrats, considering the source.  From the Boston Herald:

U.S. Rep. Joseph P. Kennedy III, breaking ranks with other Democrats who are trashing President-elect Donald Trump and boycotting his inaugural, is imploring his party’s rank and file to figure out why middle American voters went Republican in November.

“Somewhere along the way, we lost their trust. We have to get it back,” Kennedy said, departing from many in his party who have sought to cast blame for the loss elsewhere.

Kennedy rallied roughly 160 Democrats in a high school cafeteria in deep-blue Newton, giving a brief outline of what he sees as the future of his party.

An important step, he said, is to find out why people voted for Trump, rather than reacting to everything he posts on Twitter.

“The danger with going down that road is that it risks distracting us from what the core message was on Nov. 7 and Nov. 8,” Kennedy said. “For some reason this time, they decided to trust Donald Trump with their vote.”

He said liberal voters need to find common ground with Trump supporters, and said berating them for their decision is the wrong way to win them back. “Folks, we lost their trust and being mortified and mystified about their vote doesn’t bring it back,” he said.

COMMENT:  Good words, but the Democrats show no intention of listening. It's always someone else's fault.  The dog ate the homework.  It was the Russians.  It was the FBI. 

The Democrats lost at every level, not just at the presidential level.  I've always believed the vote for Trump was primarily a vote against Democratic policies, a protest vote.  It was also a vote against political correctness and identity politics. But there are too many top Democrats who are invested in the very things that failed.  They will not change, and they never leave.  You sometimes get the feeling that the Democratic leadership remembers the Civil War. 

If Democrats do not change, they'll have only one route to renewed power – hoping that the Republicans fail badly.  And, of course, that could happen.

January 18, 2017