Here's what the Democrats are doing wrong

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24. Good points

There's a free-floating anger out there that isn't rational and seems disproportionately aimed at Democrats, aka the people who might actually be able to help. Republicans run empty-headed people like Karen Handel against smart, well-meaning Democrats like Jon Ossoff and we lose in-part because late dark money ads tie him to our long-entrenched House Leader, who is a fraction of the "threat" to voters as the existence of dark money, its source and the political party that made it all possible (it wasn't Pelosi's).

What I think we need to respect here is not the quality of anti-elite thinking but the fact and roots of its existence. The American economy is a grind; many people feel like they are chasing the wind when it comes to balancing out income with expenses and their frustration hasn't ebbed with the recovery. Any politician who stands before people who feel this way without convincingly conveying the impression that he or she knows they've been roughed up, lied to and ripped off is going to be labeled an elite. That's what the article is basically saying, IMO. Trump's election should have taught us that many voters are seeking a meaningful break with the past. They chose horribly, carelessly and stupidly. But that doesn't mean if Democrats offer their characteristically "safe" alternative they won't do it again.