Booker: Democratic Party 'has failed this moment'

[JHB]

35. We tried that, Corey. His name was Barack Obama. All it proved was that there's no "left-right divide"...

...it is a sane-insane divide, a divide between the "reality-based community" and the "fantasy and horseshit community".

And the fact that they hate us with a passion and genuinely dream of grinding us under their bootheels.

It's not really the Democratic Party that has failed, but its leadership (such as yourself, Senator) has. Specifically, its decades-long blindness to recognize the radicalism driving the Right. The failure to pay attention when they refuse any cross-party cooperation. The refusal to recognize their Soviet-Politburo-level of lockstep. The failure to recognize that while your Republican colleagues might be swell guys in person who tell you all sorts of complaints about Trump, it's their actions that define them, and their actions wholeheartedly back Trump and the rest of his ideologue/zealot/grifter-ridden administration.

And just as a suggestion, STOP EQUATING RIGHT AND LEFT. When the ball is on the 5 yard line, the big thing to focus on is NOT "both sides need to move the ball down the field to score." It may be technically true, but it deliberately ignores the actual situation.