The Democratic Party is in a deeper ditch than the Republican Party

[joshcryer]

21. Failure is acceptable.

The Democratic party is building the effort for the 2020 redistricting fight, if the one campaign that wants to do a 50 state strategy fails to get back the House, it is acceptable.

The linked article is a shallow indictment on the Democrats that doesn't have any short term or long term analysis. If the one campaign exploring the 50 state strategy succeeds or other campaigns adopt the strategy (which is likely) then there is a good chance for gains, and there is a good chance that by 2020 more reasonable redistricting can happen.

The article in the OP is setting the Democrats up for failure, before anything even happens. As is par for the course, it gets repeated in left circles as sacrosanct. I've seen this time and time again. Some right winger says some BS negative crap about Democrats, and it gets swallowed.

The good thing is we have just over a year and a half for this to be tested. I love quick tests like this. We'll see, won't we?

And if the Democrats fail? Oh it's only another 4 years from then to see if they manage to turn it around. The demographics certainly will increasingly play into the Democrats favor. That's another thing lacking from the analysis.