For Democrats, even a rampaging megalomaniac like Trump won’t bring them together

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Two-thirds of Americans think the Democrats are out of touch — including nearly half of Democrats themselves.

The Secular Jurist

By Robert A. Vella

The news just keeps getting worse for the Democratic Party.  Not only have they suffered the landslide defeats of the 2010 and 2014 midterms, their humiliating loss in the 2016 presidential election, and the severe ass-kicking Republicans have dealt them in state and local elections all across the country, new polling results show that the once-mighty political party of the center-left to be in the death-throes of an existential crisis.

Normally in America’s two-party system, the opposing party benefits – through increasing popular support – when the party in power goes off the rails of moderation by enacting extremist policies.  In theory, then, Democrats should be unifying as well as drawing support from independents and even some Republicans right now considering that the rampaging megalomaniac Donald Trump is leading the nation from the White House.  However, that expected trend doesn’t appear to be happening.  A new…

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