Statist
Robert Reich explains some reality to members of the Democrat party:
The Party is on life support, Democrats are in the minority in both the House and Senate. Since the start of the Obama administration they’ve lost 1,034 state and federal seats. They face 32 state legislatures fully under GOP control. No one speaks for the party as a whole. The Party’s top leaders are aging, and the back bench is thin.
The future is bleak unless the Party radically reforms itself. If Republicans do well in the 2018 midterms, they’ll control Congress and the Supreme Court for years.
There's more:
The economic data show lower unemployment and higher wages than eight years ago, but the typical family is still poorer today than it was in 2000, adjusted for inflation; median weekly earning are no higher than in 2000; a large number of working-age people – mostly men – have dropped out of the labor force; and job insecurity is endemic.
The struggles of the Democrat party.
