Democrats Are Not in Disarray

This article was previously posted to the Pinellas Young Dems Blog.

The political collective of pundits, editorial boards, op-ed contributors, cable news broadcasts, and social media “political philosophers” are all lamenting about the dysfunction and dissolution of the Democratic Party, due to our increasingly crowded presidential field. The political collective is regularly asserting that the Party is in disarray. The political collective is wrong because it forgets that at the end of the day, “all politics is local,” as remarked by the legendary Democratic Speaker Tip O’Neill proclaimed.

The increasingly crowded presidential field is something that Democrats should embrace. We should be celebrating the fact that our party is producing a field of quality candidates, all of which would be a better president than the current occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. We have an increasingly diverse cohort that occupies every inch of the political left spectrum, and for that, we will ultimately become a much better party contending to compete against a Grand Old Party in 2020. The GOP is a party that sold its soul to Donald J. Trump and Trumpism, for which we all know they will soon regret. We should not get distracted by the political collective that thrives on perpetuating outrange and dysfunction. Democrats are not in disarray.