Democrats still misunderstand working-class voters - to their peril

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106. Too many Dems think progress is achieved and elections won in the 90 days before an election

An advantage of being an old fart is that I've seen much of this "long game" with my own eyes. And I can certainly read about the parts of American history I did not personally experience.

Thom Hartmann has written extensively about some of the long cycles in politics -- on the scale of 80 years. It seems the underlying factor is that 80 years is long enough for almost everybody with first-hand knowledge to be dead. So here we are with Nazis again, and a lot of people, even some on our side, seem to not understand the significance of this.