How strong is the Democratic Party set up for the next election?

[kentuck]

Are they strong enough to compete with the inept and incompetent Trump and his do-nothing Congress?

What do they need to do to improve their position, other than convince more voters to vote?

Any ideas?

[ladjf]

1. The first step is for Dems to fully realize how important it is to put

more Dems in office.

[monmouth4]

2. And it can't be done if they don't vote..n/t

[David__77]

3. I think a "bottom-up" approach is needed.

That would involve mobilization of party and non-party organizations to register voters and to generally activate people politically. A TV network would be good. A simple and readily understood basic platform would also be good (think of something like "Contract with America" in form, not content!). These sorts of things would greatly bolster the Democrats.

[Wounded Bear]

4. If you're talking about 2018, I'll say, not too bad...

The energy is out there with the protests and marches. Emily's list has been recruiting and training new women candidates across the country, thousands of them. That bodes well at the state and local level. Every woman, and man, who decides to run for office, no matter how local it is, should trigger several people from their personal life to join in the process and get involved. We need more voters, and they won't come from the right, they'll come from that great middle ground that hasn't been participating.

Not really worried about 2020 yet.

[crazycatlady]

5. All politics is local

First step is to find a candidate. A few have stepped up, but let's worry about 2017 first.

If you want to do something, get involved with your local party. Going to a meeting will tell you if the infrastructure is in place.

[Vinca]

6. We must stop the in house bickering.

I don't know if it's the Russian hackers still ginning things up or perpetually cranky people, but this site has become really divisive. United we win, divided we lose. How many times must we learn the lesson? At this point the Democratic Party isn't inspiring confidence for either the midterms or 2020.

[kentuck]

7. Definitely not productive.

But I think we need some new blood in the Party. We should not be discussing nominating 75-80 yr olds for the Presidency, in my opinion. It's a tough job, no matter what Donald Trump might say. He's a moron.