Columnist: Democrats on Verge of Becoming ���Permanent Minority��� Party

 Stewart Lawrence, writing over at The Daily Caller, suggests the Democratic Party is quickly becoming so marginalized that it may well become the ���permanent minority��� party it had once arrogantly claimed the GOP would be in just a relative handful of years.

Lawrence reminds readers of the Democrats��� theory to that effect���that the Republican Party had become so irrelevant to basically every demographic besides white men in flyover country, that there was no way they���d be in charge of anything ever again.

Uh-huh.

Now, an aggressive, ���America first��� Republican president is in charge of the country, accompanied on his political adventures by a Congress that is fully in Republican control.

What���s more, the Republican president stayed true to his word and recently nominated to the Supreme Court a jurist whose values are largely reflective of the base that voted said president into office.

Who, again, is at serious risk of becoming the ���permanent minority��� party?

In making his case, Lawrence, in part, cites an analysis recently conducted by think tank Third Way that illustrates how Democrats are becoming the very ���coastal��� party critics have accused them of being for some time now.

Lawrence offers up Third Way���s data showing that voters in California, New York, and Massachusetts went for Hillary Clinton by a substantial margin of 65% to 35%,while the voters that comprise the other 47 states, as a whole, went for Trump by a margin of 52% to 48%.

Moreover, Lawrence points out, the November defeat has left the Democratic Party bitterly divided and dealing with ���fierce ideological, gender and ethnic divisions��� that seem practically unresolvable for the foreseeable future.

By Robert G. Yetman, Jr.