It depends on when Democrats tell their left flank to shut up and sit down.
Remember Charles Manatt? Probably not, unless you are over 50, but younger folks—especially those on the left—ought to read up on him. Manatt founded a fine law firm, Manatt, Phelps, and Phillips LLP, which continues to thrive more than a dozen years after Manett’s death in 2011. Manatt also was Ambassador to the Dominican Republic. Before that post, however, Manatt was the Chairman of the Democratic National Committee from 1981 to 1985.
Manatt was a talented fellow as was his successor Paul Kirk, who took over the DNC in 1985 after Walter Mondale was crushed by then President Reagan in 1984, as was Ron Brown, who took the reins at the DNC after Massachusetts Governor Mike Dukakis got blown out by then Vice President George H.W. Bush in 1988. Party chairs cannot lead their respective party anywhere if the ideological activists from the far end of their political spectrum are eating up the messaging.
In fact, it took Manatt and his successors a full dozen years plus a 'moderate' governor from a southern state in the person of Bill Clinton, and a big assist Ross Perot in 1992, for Democrats to reclaim 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue from President George H.W. Bush and the GOP, so bad and enduring was the memory of Carter-era stagflation with voters. Voters don’t quickly forgive and forget inflation or the party that unleashed it.
If Trump can get the border wall built and the tax cuts revised and made permanent, there’s no reason for him not to be kicking off another dozen years for the GOP in the White House. If Democrats don’t moderate, that’s exactly what will happen. And no matter who Democrats name as their chair, if the 'Obama bros' over at Pod Save America keep their grip on the Democrats’ conversations and thinking, there’s no chance Democrats climb out of their deep, deep hole.
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