And Charlie Strong was given a rotting roster of entitled pussies that found ways to lose to awful teams. It does not matter if he was not responsible for it. It was his job to fix it, and when he proved he couldn't, he was gone. Democrats are the Charlie Strong of politics. Nice people, but completely unequipped to deal with what is happening in this country. The time to nuke party leadership and start with a fresh approach from a fresh set of faces was after Hilary got run by DJT. Now, I'm not sure the party can recover. As a brand, it's toxic. Want evidence?
In a warning for Colorado Democrats, a new poll shows their popularity slipping. Now what?
Survey reveals problems for state’s dominant party and is another sign of conflict over its direction
Here's a link, but it's behind a paywall: https://www.denverpost.com/2025/02/02/colorado-democrats-republicans-one-main-street-poll-shifts-voters/
Donald Trump built a base by acknowledging a lot of people had shitty lives, putting the blame on political opponents and promising to fix it. He did that first to the Republican Party, then to the Democrats. Now he's started similar positioning with Canada. There is a pattern here.
A working class rural white guy I know who voted for Trump put his decision this way: "Donald Trump represents hope for a whole lot of people like me." Unsaid in that is what his life seems like without DJT acknowledging the worth of people like him: hopeless. He's a handyman. Lives in a trailer. He never voted before 2016.
Donald Trump is the product of both parties and the government they ran having ignored these people for decades. They were a-political, because no one from either party made them feel worthy of consideration in our governance. Many of them were accurately described by Hilary as "deplorable". But they are humans, citizens and voters and writing them off as unimportant was a huge mistake that created the context where someone like DJT could do what he is doing.
It doesn't matter if Trump is full of shit. If he's going to make those people's lives worse. If he's more about enriching the rich and the common folk were just pawns in his game. It doesn't matter if they are cut off from reality by the conservative info sphere. It's the oppositions job to overcome all of that. The people who will stop this will be the people that can figure out how to connect with that working class base and give them a different form of hope than what DJT has given them. That is obviously not the Democratic Party, at least as we have known it the last decade.