It's pretty clear, to me, why the DNC lost in 2024 and 2016, and only barely won in 2020 when they should have run away with the election. There are the strategic immediate things, bad political moves, but the real reason is more basic. 

They want the old times back. When Democrats and Republicans were collegial and the money just poured in from corporate donors, from unions, some to the left and some to the right, but everyone looked the other way. No one ratted out each other's finances or adulteries, and life in DC was luxurious. Embassy parties, limousines, opulent homes, and oh, did I mention the money? All that money... It was a wonderful time, a wealthy time. From 1945 to 2000.

They don't understand -- they don't want to understand -- that all changed as the WWII generation aged out of politics, and the cutthroat GOP libertarian ideologues moved in. The result was the year 2000, when a GOP mob changed the Florida election results and Democrats became the target of a political jihad.

Twenty-four years later and it's only gotten worse. The nation is in a fight for its very existence as a democratic republic, and the DNC is desperately trying to make it like it was, to go back to a gentler time when everyone got rich and everyone got along and all this nastiness wasn't even on the horizon. Back in the early nineties, or even before, the Democratic Party decided it could abandon the uneducated white voter and just be Republican-lite. Corporatist but socially enlightened. Pro Wall Street but with Birkenstocks. Greedy but with a baseline of principals. It failed to realize corporate America requires servants, not benign masters.

The DNC lives in a fantasy, striving for something to return that never will, while our nation collapses around it. To save our nation we will have to stop our infighting, stop virtue-signalling and stop leading with relatively unimportant issues like pronouns and changing place names  -- yes, under the current circumstances they are relatively unimportant -- and vote as one. Our only task for the next cycle or more should be to win back the uneducated white voter.

Do you think they wanted to give up unions? Do you think they actually like rich people?  They didn't and they don't. But Trump did one thing correctly -- he told them they weren't hallucinating and that their way of life was indeed being slowly destroyed. He validated their well-founded fears and told them they weren't imagining things, while the Democratic Party thought it could win with the northeast  and the west coast and a host of empty promises.

We need to get them back.