Donald Trump’s Address to the Nation, Democratic Party’s Disjointed Response, Stressed Out Workers and an Angry and Unsettled Public!

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Journalists, pundits, commentators, and others are bemoaning what they see as the Democratic Party’s downward spiral. The Democrats -rudderless-clueless-democrats-have-no-message have no message. The Democratic Party is broken democratic-party-crisis-mode- and beyond repair. The Democrats -democrats-are-in-disarray are in disarray with no sign of rebounding anytime soon — and so on. For all the Chicken Littles among the pundit class and beyond who believe that the political sky is falling on the Democratic Party, allow me to remind you that politics is cyclical.

During the mid-1990s, there were countless articles about how the Republican Party was in the political wilderness, mortally wounded, bereft of any ideas, etc. Less than four years later, in 2000, the GOP won the White House (with the help of the Supreme Court) and Congress. Let’s go back even further. Remember in early to mid-1991 when George Bush Sr. reigned victoriously after Operation Desert Storm and his popularity was at a record 92 percent? Virtually every one in the pundit class argued at the time that Bush Sr. was unbeatable and that the Democrats were going to presidential-election-of-1992-facts-and-outcome “set out 1992” and came up with various other…