Imbeciles

My wife summed up the weakness of the Democratic Party in one sentence: They don't know how to get the support they need from morons.

Consider a fact. Half of the people in the United States are below average in reasoning skills, and Trump got slightly more than 49% of the national vote. 

I'm not claiming that all Trump voters are idiots, but many are as incapable of sustained rational analysis as a starving bear.   

When I was born (1934) stupid Americans were divided between two major parties. The Republicans had small town Babbitts. The Democrats had Alabama. But, later, as Nixon developed his southern strategy, he gathered most of the stupid voters into one formidable party.

In democracies it is not unusual for resentful dumbbells to ally with the super rich and do combat with the educated middle class. Something like that has happened here. 

This much is clear. To succeed in two years, the Democrats need to win back their fair share of imbeciles.