Rahm Emanuel to Democrats: Take a chill pill. You're not going to take back national power anytime soon.

Chicago Tribune wrote:
Mayor Rahm Emanuel has warned Democrats they need to "take a chill pill" and realize that they are not going to take back national power anytime soon.

"It ain't gonna happen in 2018," Emanuel said Monday at Stanford's Graduate School of Business in California. "Take a chill pill, man. You gotta be in this for the long haul."
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"Winning's everything," he said. "If you don't win, you can't make the public policy. I say that because it is hard for people in our party to accept that principle. Sometimes, you've just got to win, OK? Our party likes to be right, even if they lose."

He added, "I don't go to moral victory speeches. I can't stand them. I've never lost an election. It's about winning, because if you win you then have the power to go do what has to get done.

"If you lose, you can write the book about what happened — great, that's really exciting!" he said, sarcastically.

As he did last month at an event in Washington, D.C., the mayor expanded on what he believes is the road map back to power for his party — putting moderate candidates such as veterans, football players, sheriffs and business people up in Republican districts, picking battles with Republicans, exploiting wedges within the GOP and fighting attempts to redistrict Congress on partisan grounds.

Lord Independent Thoughts wrote:"Strategy". Heh. Ok.
It's hard to strategize a revival when most in your party are in denial of how they got there in the first place.
Warren gets it, but she's in a small minority of those who do.

While I know that Trump was a significantly better choice than Hillary, I don't for a second think he'll go down in history as  the greatest president ever.  I am open and welcoming to be proven wrong, but I doubt it'll happen.
It's for that reason I want the Democratic party to succeed and to produce a candidate worthy of running against Trump in 2020.  Trump was better than Hillary, but that's not saying a lot because she was a fundamentally flawed candidate to begin with.  
We should always strive for better.

Lord Independent Thoughts wrote:"Strategy". Heh. Ok.
It's hard to strategize a revival when most in your party are in denial of how they got there in the first place.
Warren gets it, but she's in a small minority of those who do.

While I know that Trump was a significantly better choice than Hillary, I don't for a second think he'll go down in history as  the greatest president ever.  I am open and welcoming to be proven wrong, but I doubt it'll happen.
It's for that reason I want the Democratic party to succeed and to produce a candidate worthy of running against Trump in 2020.  Trump was better than Hillary, but that's not saying a lot because she was a fundamentally flawed candidate to begin with.  
We should always strive for better.