The Democrats have a working class problem - and it's by no means confined to working class whites.

[YoungDemCA]

9. So give them a simple, compelling reason to vote FOR Clinton (or anyone else - including Sanders)

Rather than AGAINST Trump, or any other Republican.

The decisive voters in this election - the tiny number of "decide-at-the-last-minute" voters in a small number of critical swing states - were people who disliked Trump, but disliked Clinton MORE. And she bled a lot to third-party voters, and was adversely affected by low turnout as well (and yes, voter suppression, Russian disinfo, the Comey letter, and such all played big roles in their own right. I'm not discounting that).

The simple truth is that we had two historically unpopular major party nominees with basically universal name recognition, and so voters in both parties were more compelled to vote AGAINST the other party's nominee than FOR their own party's nominee. Negative partisanship, however, tends to benefit Republicans - because they are much more likely to "hold their noses" (read: fall in line) for any asshole as long as they have an "R" next to their name, because the alternative is a Democrat (the horror!). And low turnout, misinformation and disinformation, and voter suppression tactics all hurt the Democrats much more than they hurt the Republicans (in fact, they help the Republicans).

What do we stand FOR? I'm serious. This is not a rhetorical question. It's not enough to be The Resistance or The Opposition. We need to drive up turnout among our own base, register a lot more voters, and organize politically - starting from the ground up. The clock is ticking; they're be no mercy shown for us from the neo-fascist Republican Right under Trump and those who will continue his sordid style of politics long after he's gone.