I think Booker would be a fine candidate for the general election. I am getting increasingly concerned about our own tea party. Please, let's not nominate a wing nut. The GOP smear machine will TEAR THEM APART, almost no matter how terrible of a president Trump turns out to be. The republicans are so much better at playing dirty politics, than the dems. Don't buy into the illusion that America is ready for a socialist president. It's not.
The Democratic Party needs a "tea party."
The Democratic Party, as for what it is now and who has the influence over the party, is
The Republican Party, Part II.
They are masters at depressing their base. Under Barack Obama, the high point of Democratic Party electability was Obama's first election, in 2008, while the midterms [2010, 2014] were disasters. In 2012, Obama was re-elected with lowered support (most presidents re-elected to a second term
gain). And the party lost the White House with Election 2016 with a worshipped-by-true-believers candidate [Hillary Clinton] who couldn't hold Wisconsin (Republican first time since Ronald Reagan was re-elected with 49 states in 1984) and both Pennsylvania and Michigan (last Republican in 1988).
There is no one, especially one who self-identifies as a
Democrat, who should be accepting with
this Democratic Party.
What needs to happen is the end of active Democratic Party careers of a whole lot of these people. They are damaging. And reform and realignment in the party, for an ideologically left-wing party (representative throughout the nation), is a must.
The only one of the two major political parties advancing their agenda is the right-wing Republican Party. The nation needs to be moving left on policies. The people are already there. They are there.
This Democratic Party loses, for the most part, because they are not enough of a contrast to the Republicans. They are different from Republicans on social issues. But, on others, they are too much like the Republicans.
