re: #173 dog philosopher
I do think that the Democratic party is languishing.
For most of my life the Democratic party has been the “We’re not Republicans” party.
I think HHH was the last Democrat with both a hard agenda and a personality to bring it.
Since then we’ve had very strong “I’m not a Republican”, e.g., Carter, who was elected because he wasn’t Nixon.
We’ve had Clinton, who was elected because he wasn’t Reagan.
We have Obama, because he is not GWB.