What politics have you been watching over the past 20 years? The Dems are guaranteed to be more harmed by this and snatch defeat from the Jaws of victory yet again.
While optics of the resuming o government business is not positive for the Democrats, I don't exactly see where the Dems had victory in sight. America is for DACA by majority. But America was against the shutdown being used to push DACA into law. Schumer was in a bad situation of pushing for a majority supported position via the only maneuver available to him... and the same people supporting DACA were against that maneuver. The Dems didn't fail, the people (and their inability to understand how Congress is run at this time) did.
So Schumer pulled out. It doesn't look great, but it is hardly a victory for Republicans as presented, as all they managed to do was Stopgap Bill
again. They own the Government and can barely get a Stopgap Bill through, forget about a budget.
I wasn't referring to "victory" specifically related to DACA, but victory in the the 2018 and 2020 elections. Dems are great at finding ways to lose elections they should, and lose PR battles. I'm not saying Schumer did anything wrong here, but it's likely that the Dems will screw up in fighting the PR battle over this.
In general, the future of the Dems is far more bleak than the GOP. The Dems used to win by depending on the Union vote. Unions are dying and soon to be extinct. Lack of the Union vote for Dems is the #1 reason Trump won. The Dem's reliable base is comprised mostly of aging traditional liberals who think (rightly) that supporting a moderate party capable of limiting the power of rightist extremists is a better strategy than trying to appeal to a more extreme left base that doesn't vote and doesn't have enough money or organization to support a viable campaign.
The union people I've been working around recently have been pretty pro-Trump. I tried to explain the irony to them, but their minds have been warped badly by so many years of propaganda to get it.
That's just it. The Unions are dying and Dems are not (and cannot) do much to save them. This has led to the few Union people that are left to lose their only reason for voting Dem in the past. On average, Union workers have been prone to xenophobic racism and conservative social values. So, the fact that Dems are no longer seen as the reliable salvation of Union jobs, combined with Trump's courting of xenophobic racists (unlike anything in the modern West since about 1933), led to Trump get more of the Union vote than any Republican in 32 years. It is what won him WI, MI, PA, and thus the election.
The Democrats have problems mainly because of 30 years of propaganda that has successfully manipulated opinion and misinformed people. Despite 8 years of a relatively successful Obama Administration... people voted for the party that handed Obama the worst economy since the Great Depression. These people thought we were still in recession at the end of Obama's Presidency, but now use the same economic numbers to prove Trump's plan is working.
Yeah, this is part of what I was referring to by saying the Dems are good at snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. Hell, Obama should have won by 20 points, but probably wouldn't even have won in 2008, if the collapse of Lehman Brothers had come 2 months later.
They suck at messaging and controlling the narrative. They allow themselves to get sucked into debates that focus on race, gender, sexuality, etc., completely ignoring the greater concerns of the majority of people most likely to actually vote for them. Then there are the vocal left that overtly dismiss the problems of those potential voters because they are too white, straight, and cis-gendered (aka "privileged") to have real problems. The Dems are not taking issue with that racist nonsense coming from the left, so they lose moderates to the rightwing candidates that do. Meanwhile the leftists that want the conversation to be myopically focused on those disenfranchised groups don't bother to vote.
The Dems are being forced to choose between having at least minimal appeal to moderates and independents that actually vote and to companies that have $ to fund viable campaigns versus appeal only to the most extreme elements of an uncompromising myopic left that doesn't vote anyway and has no money.
