Ken Martin's "big tent" Democrat party

Ken Martin is right when he said that "You win through addition. You win by bringing people into your coalition. We have conservative Democrats; we have centrist Democrats; we have labor progressives like me, and we have this new brand of Democrat which is the leftist." Martin isn't building a big tent Democrat party. Today's Democrats fit into a tiny ideological sliver of Bill Clinton's Democrat Party. It wouldn't be wrong to say that today's Democrat Party satretches from the far left to the far, far left. The far, far left is where you'll find Zohran Mamdani, the socialist/communist.

Speaking of Mamdani, Martin was asked about him. Martin said of Mamdani "We win by bringing people into that coalition. At the end of the day, for me, that's the type of party we're going to lead. We are a big tent party."

I wrote this article to illustrate how tiny today's Democrat Party is:

According to a recent NBC report, the percentage of registered Democrats in states and territories that publish the partisan affiliation of voters has also decreased from 44 percent to 37 percent since 2000.

This decline is more dramatic than it may appear at first glance. Expressed as a percentage of 44, this seven-point decline means the Democratic Party has lost 16 percent of its registered voters – millions and millions of people. Most switched their registrations to Independent. Meanwhile, the percentage of registered Republicans has decreased by two points during the same 25-year time period.

That sounds like a shrinking big tent to me. That's if I'm being charitable. Considering the fact that Mamdani is a major anti-semite to go with being a socialist/communist, I'm not feeling that charitable.

"Differences" include what priorities should be highest when everyone agrees there are a number of important issues that make up the party platform. Jews in the party probably won't celebrate "differences" between themselves and Mamdani when he can't condemn a global intifada. They'll see themselves fundamentally at odds with him.

This has been the problem of the Democratic Party for years now. By trying to be everyone's party -- unless you're a straight, white Christian that is - they are in jeopardy of being nobody's party.

Based on how many people Republicans have registered in battleground states vs. how many Democrats have lost in terms of registrated Democrats, it's difficult to see Democrats winning many seats beyond deep blue seats or deep blue states. This interview says everything about Democrats:

Martin repeatedly attempts to blame Trump for how unpopular Democrats are. That might win over low-propensity voters but anyone with a brain won't get suckered into that spin. Today's Democrats aren't popular because they're on the wrong side of most important issues. That's Trump's fault only from the standpoint of Democrats' illogical need to disagree with everything Trump says. Today's Democrats won't fix their party until they start listening to people again. If they stubbornly resist that path, Democrats will quickly become irrelevant.