LA Times: “Even with a win in Georgia Tuesday, Democrats lose”

After special election losses in Kansas and Montana, the national Democratic party has come up with excuse after excuse, noting their tremendous success at notching moral victories.

Problem is, their base just isn’t buying it. After all the party’s big promises and blown expectations, Democratic voters are angry at party leaders for failing to move the needle even one inch since last November’s loss in the presidential election.

A new op-ed by a disaffected Montana Democrat in the Los Angeles Times, who felt abandoned by national Democrats, says it all:

In other words, national Democrats barely showed up for this race. They weren’t savvy enough, or they just didn’t care enough, to recognize that even a few hundred thousand dollars more, combined with despair over Trump and the rarity of a special election, might have switched this heartland prairie seat from red to blue…

Hindsight’s 20-20, but early on especially, national Republicans in Montana supported Gianforte far beyond what the Democrats did for Quist…

The time, then, is now. Was now. Yet the national resources flowed to Georgia, not Montana. They flowed to the old model of urban Democrat rather than the struggling middle-lander, the rural guy who can speak the language of Trump voters.

Democratic brothers and sisters: If you win in Georgia — taking just one slender House seat, instead of the two you might have had — remember Montana’s sacrifice.

Democrats continue to oversell their chances and fall short of their base’s expectations. Now, according to their own voters, “even with a win in Georgia Tuesday, Democrats lose.”