As Democrats continue to ask themselves what went wrong, Comedy Central’s The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart came up with a new idea: they are simply too nice. Stewart made the puzzling claim on Monday, asserting that while Republicans “don't give a [bleep] about your norms,” Democrats are busy running “to the nearby Kinkos.”
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Later, Stewart welcomed professor and author of The Emerging Democratic Majority, Ruy Teixeira to discuss his more recent book, Where Have all The Democrats Gone? And asked him:
I’ll say something that I feel like resonated with the audience and has resonated with them in a while. My idea of what happened with the Democratic Party is, it was a rejection of a status quo, a feeling that, not just in the working class movement but in many movements, that democracy is by nature analog. We are living in a digital world, we’re, you know, terminally online. The outrage and the anger and confusion is much elevated, and the distance between those two points becomes untenable. Especially, if the Democrats insist on, ‘Well, we have to keep, I would love to get the help you need, but the parliamentarian has been really up my ass all night.’ I feel like that’s a real problem for them.
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