ARE DEMS HEADING FOR DISASTER? – AT 10:15 A.M. ET:  With the media solidly on their side, with the Republican Congress divided on a host of issues, you'd think the Democrats would have a relatively easy path ahead.  But their party may well face catastrophe, even in the 2020 presidential election.  Historian Victor Davis Hanson explains that the Dems may not have learned the lessons of the past.  From RealClearPolitics: 

Will the 2020 end up like 1972 for Democrats?

So far, the similarities are eerie.

Hillary Clinton lost the election but won the popular vote over Trump. Had she campaigned more in the so-called "blue wall" states of the Rust Belt and Midwest, and not stupidly labeled a quarter of the country "irredeemable" and "deplorable," Clinton may have won in the Electoral College as well.

As in 1968, the future lesson from the lost 2016 election was for Democrats to appeal more to working classes -- and not to pander on polarizing hot-button cultural and social issues.

But it appears that Democrats may be on their way to another hard-left McGovern-style blowout.
Democrats are now even blaming Clinton for being too centrist rather than for running a terrible campaign. The newly elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee, Tom Perez, is a polarizing far-left figure.

The highest-profile Democratic Party supporters are increasingly smug Hollywood actors, rich Wall Street and Silicon Valley elitists and embittered members of the media, along with careerist identity groups and assorted protest movements -- a fossilized 1972 echo chamber.

Democrats' politically correct messaging derides opponents as deplorable racists, sexists, bigots, xenophobes, homophobes, Islamophobes and nativists. That shrill invective only further turns off middle America. Being merely anti-Trump is no more a successful Democratic agenda than being anti-Nixon was in 1972.

COMMENT:  Very well said.  Bill Clinton understood that the Democratic Party, after being trashed by Ronald Reagan, was moving too far to the left.  He tried to correct the drift, and was rewarded with two presidential terms.

Barack Obama, elected by sheer force of personality in 2008, and by a biased press determined to make him president, saw no problem with a new leftward drift, and in fact encouraged it.  The American people rewarded his party with a loss of a thousand legislative seats during the Obama reign.

Now the party is spinning out of control.  Its base is truly crazy, like something out of China's Cultural Revolution.  The millennial generation is proving to be far more practical than Dems had thought.

The Republican future is far from guaranteed, and fate has a way of messing things up, but the Democrats are making it easier for the GOP.

May 1,  2017