Rahm Emanuel on Democratic problems: ‘You’re not going to solve it in 2018’

The Washington Post reports:

One of the architects of the last Democratic takeover of Congress played down the importance of the 2018 midterm elections, saying Sunday that the party’s long-term problems run far deeper than whether Democrats can win back the House.

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel said the Democrats had lost so many seats across all legislative bodies that party leaders need to rebuild from the ground up to create a sustainable majority on Capitol Hill.

“What I disagree with is an approach that assumes it’s only about one election. We’re down, over the last eight years, about 1,100 Democrats. You’re not going to solve it in 2018,” Emanuel said on CNN’s “State of the Union.”

“So the question is,” he said, “what are we doing about statehouses? What are we doing to recruit candidates to run for other types of offices at a local level?”

Imagine that.