Nina Turner on How to Make the Democratic Party Great Again

[Proud Liberal Dem]

96. The Democratic Party has issues but it's not widely unpopular

But we suffer from a lot of structural issues and disadvantages that we need to correct such as voter apathy (why can't our voters get out and vote in every single election when Republican voters do?), Gerrymandering, and voter suppression. HRC- flawed though she might have been- won the PV by a commanding lead but lost the WH by enough of a margin in the key Electoral states. Democrats did pick up Senate and House seats. No, not enough to make a majority but we still came away in a (slightly) better position. Democratic policies are more widely popular than Republican ones (to the extent that Republicans have anything remotely resembling "policies&quot . There are lessons to be learned from every election but there is also the danger of learning the wrong ones too. For instance, if we decide that we didn't appeal enough to WWC and turn around and do things that we think that might appeal more to them during the next election and but instead alienates women and POC, then we are shooting ourselves in the foot. While we try to fix what's broken, let's be careful to not fix what isn't broken either.