Why are people so insistent that the Democratic Party is fatally flawed?

[CBHagman]

52. Then we have to learn to love midterms (We tend to win the popular vote in presidential races).

We've got to mobilize people for every election, whether presidential, midterm, state, local, dogcatcher. No sitting it out. No whining that one is not inspired by the candidates. The elections are going to take place no matter what, so it's best to play.

A lot is going to depend on public opinion. The media, most of it for-profit, gave extremely generous coverage to a so-called reality TV star with an extremely dodgy resume -- accusations of fraud, housing discrimination, and much more -- and they're still doing it, and by no means as tough on his ugly present and past as they generally are on Democrats, the frame there being if Democrats win, they lose, and if they lose, they are obliterated. I can guarantee you if Hillary Clinton had won the electoral college we'd be treated to nightly announcements about which member of the GOP criticized her Cabinet picks, and no political honeymoon at all.

So we need to regard ourselves as a political chorus, commenting on every racist move or nominee, every sign of incompetence, every attempt to afflict the afflicted and comfort the comfortable. It's going to be difficult, but I believe there is in most people a basic sense of fairness.

And we're going to have to expand the party, no two ways about it, and steer clear of splitting up the vote. Split up the vote and you get Paul LePage. You get G.W. Bush. You get Trump.