Democrats have lost their way

 Politico:

Voters still have a sour view of Democrats six weeks after President Donald Trump and Republicans swept into Washington with control of all branches of the federal government, according to a new poll.

A plurality of voters — 40 percent — said the Democratic Party doesn’t have any strategy whatsoever for responding to Trump, according to the survey by the liberal firm Blueprint that was shared first with POLITICO. Another 24 percent said Democrats have a game plan, but it’s a bad one.

A paltry 10 percent said that the party has a solid technique for dealing with Trump. And that’s coming from a Democratic outfit’s survey.

The unsparing findings, issued by a group backed by mega-donor Reid Hoffman, amount to a major rebuke of the party’s approach to the dawn of Trump’s second term. And they come at a moment when Democrats are already feeling despondent after their roundly mocked response to Trump’s address to Congress on Tuesday, which was lambasted as unproductive and amateurish.

“Voters correctly identified that the Democratic Party has lost its way,” said Evan Roth Smith, the top pollster for Blueprint. “The Democratic response [Tuesday] night was more or less a continuation of what we’ve seen from Democrats so far. Which is, there was nothing overtly wrong about it, but it didn’t actually do anything to ameliorate this core issue Democrats face, which is voters aren’t quite sure what we stand for and would like us to get back to the basic principles of the party.”
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I left the Democrat party decades ago and it looks like much of the rest of the country is catching up with me.  Its current leadership has been a disaster in recent polls.  Voters are rejecting their message in large numbers and Democrats appear unable to respond in a coherent manner.

See also:

Dems throw House into chaos after 10 moderates join GOP to punish Al Green

Green stood by his actions during Trump's speech to Congress, which he said were taken with 'intentionality'

And:

 Divided on Strategy, Democrats Keep Playing into Trump’s Hands: ‘We’re Coming Off as So Clueless’

And:

 Brandon Johnson Shows Why Approval Rating Is 7 Percent During House Hearing on Sanctuary Cities

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