Republican wing of the Democratic Party

  John Kasich, who failed to flip-- or even almost flip-- Ohio for Biden said a couple of things over the weekend that angered Democrats for the Democratic wing of the Democratic Party: "Now is the time for Democrats... to begin to listen to what the other half of the country has to say" and "The Democrats have to make it clear to the far-left that they almost cost him this election." Far left? Who dat?

 DCCC Chair Cheri Bustos, Born To Lose by Nancy Ohanian House Democrats are freaking out over more losses as the ballots get counted. According to a Politico piece, House Dems brace for more losses by Ally Mutnick and Sarah Ferris.

 Meet The Blue Dogs and New Dems Working across the aisle in a bipartisan fashion in an art. Most Democrats in Congress do not have a clue about how it's done.

  Yesterday, reporting for the NY Times, Luke Broadwater used the word "brand" half a dozen times in writing about the House freshmen from the Republican wing of the Democratic Party-- conservative Blue Dogs and New Dems.

  I was speaking with a congressional candidate the other day. And she asked me if I know a particular member of Congress who had called her recently.

  This morning, the NY Times editorial board asserted that Trump destroyed the Republican Party. They're wrong. The craven, spineless politicians who represent the party destroyed it.

Thursday night during the debate Biden accidentally answered "yes" when asked if he favored closing down the oil industry. He had had a senior moment and he didn't mean that, explaining to journalists a short time later that "We’re not going to get rid of fossil fuels. We’re going to get rid of subsidies for fossil fuels." A step in the right direction.

 Kelly Loeffler-- the first U.S. Senator to publicly embrace QAnon Well-meaning but politically naive self-identifying Democrats who are laboring under the impression that "anything blue" is the way to go, are going to be very disappointed in 2021. Cheri Bustos' DCCC has guaranteed a totally dysfunctional conservative Democratic House caucus and Schumer has done even worse in the Senate.

A wave election shouldn't be that hard to understand. This one is easier than most: voters hate Trump and his enablers and want to defeat them. It has nothing much to do with the lesser evil party. Relatively few people are voting for Biden; everyone is voting against Trump-- and his enablers. Biden wasn't the worst Democrat in the primary; Bloomberg was. But Biden was a close second worst.

What's worse? This or supporting another dynast?  The New Dems, even more so that the withered and impotent Blue Dogs, are the heart of the Republican wing of the Democratic Party. They are Wall Street and corporate-America sell outs and have more in common with Eisenhower-era Republicans than they do with progressive Democrats.