It's fair to say that from November 9th 2016 until February 25 2017 (potentially even into July 2017), I was hoping that the overwhelming evidence against their electoral strategies would make even the hardliner Democrats rethink their ways. Unfortunately, as we have begun to learn from reporting by Nomiki Konst, and a small number of others, the biggest issue here is that people simply don't understand the dynamics of the DNC, DCCC, DSCC, and DGA.
Rational individuals would think that the decision-making members of this party would want the party to win; they would be wrong. The consulting firms for the Democratic party are voting members of the party, and it's created grotesque conflicts of interest. If the Democrats lose forever, the consults still make their money, and in fact consults only make money off of particular campaigning methods (e.g. TV/internet ads) and less off of others (door-to-door canvassing). So there's a whole host of very important strategies that they will advise their candidate not to do because they make less money off of it. It also controls their messaging, since the consulting firms don't make money off of candidates who don't show up with 1 million dollars out of the gate, so small dollar, grass-roots funded campaigns are attacked by the DCCC clearly at the behest of the consultants. They also know if these candidates win, they'll tear their claws away from the throat of the DNC, DCCC, etc. There's also a cultural problem, but it's not like these consultants are dumb. They're looking at the same numbers I am. They know they can't **** off Millennials and Bernie voters and win, but they keep on doing it because, at some level, I think the confluence of arrogance, perverse incentives, and cultural disdain for the Left has led them down a hole. The problem is that with Trump, we're getting tossed into that same hole.
