The American people ‘don’t trust our institutions,’ deputy campaign manager laments.
As elected Democrats dwell on the deeper meaning to their electoral beatdown, slivers of genuine insight occasionally pop to the surface of what remains a deep sea of denial. Authority imposed from on high was soundly defeated on November 5 by grassroots anger over issues of fundamental concern to average Americans. That’s not supposed to happen. What does this mean for a party that spent decades assiduously securing a stranglehold over the gatekeepers of a carefully constructed cultural dominion that now finds itself bereft of all resonance with the public at large?
“Campaigns, in many ways, are last-mile marketers that exist on terrain that is set by culture, and the institutions by which Democrats have historically had the ability to…
