Democrats are engaged in a 'new politics of evasion' that could cost them in 2024, new study says
Washington PostNow the authors are back, with a fresh analysis of their party. This time it comes in the wake of President Biden’s victory over former president Donald Trump in 2020, but it is an even starker warning about the future than the one they issued in 1989 after Michael Dukakis’s landslide electoral college loss to George H. W. Bush.
“A Democratic loss in the 2024 presidential election may well have catastrophic consequences for the country,” they write, arguing that the Trump-led Republican Party presents the most serious threat to American democracy in modern times. The Democrats’ first duty, they argue, should be to protect democracy by winning in 2024; everything else should be subordinated to that objective.
But they argue that the Democrats are not positioned to achieve that objective, that, instead, the party is “in the grip of myths that block progress toward victory” and that too many Democrats are engaged in a “new politics of evasion, the refusal to confront the unyielding arithmetic of electoral success.”
“Too many Democrats have evaded this truth and its implications for the party’s agenda and strategy,” the authors add. “They have been led astray by three persistent myths: that ‘people of color’ think and act in the same way; that economics always trumps culture; and that a progressive majority is emerging."
Progressive Policy Institute report
Someone will likely complain that PPI are "DINOs", but the reality is that votes for Trump by African Americans and Hispanics INCREASED in 2020, and that given a choice between Mainstream Democrats and Progressive Democrats in 2021 Municipal races, voters gravitate towards mainstream candidates.
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Couldn't agree with your comments more. What you said is simply put, the reality full stop.
pundit class seems to be the ones with their heads up their collective arses, imo.
NOT what both elections and polls of Democratic voter ideology show every time.
I imagine the study result described is largely valid in a number of ways, but they fail to point out that the "persistent myth" they decry is NOT from Democrats. It is a myth, all right, created and spread by the same hostile MSM (and other enemies) who turned Hillary into a corrupt evil witch to elect Republicans. They created fake "baggage" for Hillary and injected it into every story.
And they're continuing the same character assassination of the Democratic Party. Instead of a fake email scandal and all the rest, the MSM's main fake baggage this time is that an extremist-leaning far left minority is dominating our ideology, and messaging. 
Again, Democratic voters election after election and poll after poll show this to be false. Even the shallowest study of why Bernie Sanders did as well as he did shows extensive dishonest lift given by the MSM and, in 2016 especially by Russia -- pushing the myth of "Progressive"/socialist myth as the "two" in their "one-two punch" to dismantle the Democratic Party's enormous lead through most of the campaign period.
And it continues. That "persistent myth" pushed by hostiles cost us most of our house majority in 2020 because Democratic voters, predictably, were alarmed by characterizations that Democrats wanted to "defund the police" and other "persistent-myth" noise. San Francisco voters, overwhelmingly liberal and Democratic, just recalled three "Progressive" school board members who thought renaming 44 schools WAS fixing the crisis in education in the midst of the pandemic.
Those are big clues. The problems they attribute to far-left ideology that voters won't support are real, but that this is the Democratic Party's message is NOT real.
"Democeats NEED to..."
It's not the Democrats who need a self correction. We've remained true to our tenats.
