Requiem for a party

I missed this Economist article written two days after the U.S. election.

The Democrats certainly need to engage in a vigorous debate about the future of a party that has been in relentless decline for the past 50 years. A machine that once enjoyed a huge advantage in voter registration is almost at parity with Republicans; a party that once lorded it over Capitol Hill is now a minority in both houses of Congress, as well as being locked out of the White House. Worse, the defection of the white working class to the Republicans has left behind an awkward alliance of the upscale and the downscale - of educated elites (with a few billionaires thrown in) and ethnic minorities.

That's certainly blunt. I doubt most Democrats and no one in our Vichy Old Media can bring themselves to be so honest. The Economist is rooting for Hillary Clinton but only because, as the subtitle says, "Hillary may not be the best person to put her party together again. But she is better than the rabid left."

In my view, if the Democrat party wants to purge the rabid Left from their ranks, they're gonna have to start with the Vichy Old Media.