I think he inspired a lot of them - certainly young people he brought into the process.Īnd I think that's who we, collectively, as the Democratic Party, need to talk to again. And, you know, I know in the primary campaign that, you know, Bernie's agenda was about working people. SIMON: How did what we used to think of as the party of labor wind up losing the votes of so many middle-class workers?ĭEVINE: Well, I think because those middle-class workers thought that our party was not speaking to them, to their issues, to their concerns, to their priorities - that we were not in touch with them the way we should have been. And I think that was enough for him to win the election. That's how she lost, OK? The people in this country - most voters in the states that decided the election wanted change. How could she lose?ĭEVINE: Donald Trump was a change candidate in a change election. SIMON: Hillary Clinton - well-funded, supremely smart, very experienced - her opponent said one outrageous thing after another. Most recently, he was senior adviser to the Bernie Sanders campaign and joins us in our studios. Should Democrats have a wake for their party? Tad Devine is a longtime Democratic strategist. Thirty-three of the 50 states have Republican governors, and two-thirds of all state legislatures are Republican. A Republican president will nominate Supreme Court justices. But this week, the Republican Party won the presidency, the Senate and the House.
A few said a civil war had already begun in the party. This time last week, a lot of pundits prepared obituaries for the Republican Party, saying it hadn't changed to accommodate America's changing demographics.
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