Why Democrats Keep Losing

The election of 2016 might have taught both parties something, but one of them didn't get the message. On the Republican side, Donald Trump, a man with a highly checkered past as a businessman and a man, swept a bevy of establishment Republican candidates aside to take the nomination--an episode without precedent in American politics. On the Democratic side, an unknown professed socialist, Bernie Sanders, nearly won the Iowa caucuses, won the New Hampshire primary, and eventually won 23 primaries or caucuses while Clinton on 34. Trump had the advantage of running against several establishment candidates, while Sanders was running against only one. Despite her loss to Obama in 2008, Clinton had gone into the race as an overwhelming favorite, but Sanders gave her a serious scare. The Democratic National Committee pulled every possible string to help Clinton, and she got the nomination. Then she lost the election, and the US will never be the same again.Since then the Democratic…