The Democrats are floundering because they cannot offer a competing vision of a brighter future. They are the party of "business as usual, for the most part", a

The Democrats are floundering because they cannot offer a competing vision of a brighter future. They are the party of "business as usual, for the most part", and their sales pitch has devolved into "elect us or the Republicans will break everything". Now that the Republicans are busily breaking everything, what are the Democrats going to propose? You can't sell "let's go back to the way things were" to a country whose people generally agree - to the degree they can agree on anything - that the way things were basically sucked.