Path Forward for Democratic Party?

[fordy]

Darc Requiem said:

fordy said:
Obama got a record number of votes in 2008 because of his promise of change. Trump won under the promise of shaking up Washington. It's not hard to tell what brings the voters in.

Democrats have since lost the plot, and instead of choosing to implement progressive change, they now get to sit and watch for the next 4 years as the Republicans have free reign to implement alt-right change. Change was bound to happen sooner or later, it was just a matter of who was willing to implement it first. That being said, the Democrats now have to rid themselves of this impression among voters as being ones who are willing to bow to Wall Street and start to listen to the working class, and talk about change, but actually follow through with it....

Trump got less votes than Romney, McCain, and Clinton. He won because people stayed home.

Exactly, and they stayed home because there was nothing on the democratic side that energised the base at all.