Democratic Whip James Clyburn: 'Defund the police' cost Democrats seats

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178. The base of the Democratic Party is women of color.

It's a myth that the majority of Americans, including Republicans voters, are secretly democratic socialists and that's the base. That they just don't know it yet, are waiting for a utopian savior, a True Progressive fighting against The Establishment and making a working class revolution. That the corrupt Democratic establishment is the only thing preventing this because they are bribed by corporations.

Republican voters loved Trump's populist anti-establishment act but had no problem when he did everything the Republican establishment told him to do. There will be no working class revolution.

As Hillary Clinton put it: "as if 99% percent of Americans would back [a far left agenda of slogans] if only the lobbyists and super PACs disappeared. But that wouldn't turn small-government conservatives into Scandinavian Socialists or make religious fundamentalists embrace marriage equality and reproductive rights."