and if so, what can democrats do to win back that portion of their base? i think she is absolutely right. i think there is a big portion of the democratic base that feels forgotten. we are not just losing rural, white voters, like we have been for decades. we are losing voters across the board and we are losing voters in tennessee. national starting to slip away. i think the democratic party has got sort of an identity crisis happening. and that the bad part of that is that the right-wing republican party has i definitely articulated vision. if you give them more power, they are going to have smaller government, less immigration, and they want to ban abortion, restrict women s rights and choice. there is a vision, a coherent vision, if you elect us, this will happen. and i think we have done a bad job as a party of creating that vision. and we ve done a bad job of picking low hanging fruit that improves the lives of people. even when we did, when we put
their base? i think she is absolutely right. i think there is a big portion of the democratic base that feels forgotten. we are not just losing rural, white voters, like we have been for decades. we are losing voters across the board and we are losing voters in tennessee. national starting to slip away. i think the democratic party has got sort of an identity crisis happening. and that the bad part of that is that the right-wing republican party has i definitely articulated vision. if you give them more power, they are going to have smaller government, less immigration, and they want to ban abortion, restrict women s rights and choice. there is a vision, a coherent vision, if you elect us, this will happen. and i think we have done a bad
christians, white christians even broader, there s a legitimation crisis. an identity crisis happening. they thought of the country as really god s promised land for white christians. as that has broken down, the country has gotten more diverse, that s not what america is today. it s created this deep, deep identity crisis and created this opening for these wild conspiracy theories to explain the unexplainable and that unexplainable piece is how can this country not be quote/unquote ours? robert jones, a lot to think about there. thank you so much. this friday, join me for a cnn special report. trumping democracy: an american coup. it starts at 9:00 p.m. on cnn. a major new milestone in the number of vaccinations in the u.s. and what seems to have helped. stay with us. as a dj, i know all about customization.
optimistic are we they are going to get anything done on immigration, let alone, you know, energy reform? i think they know there is a an image problem and an identity crisis happening. but that s absolutely right. it s not just about this, it s everything after this. this debate is going to be long and drawn out. this is just the start. we re going to move on very soon to talk about the debt ceiling, and it s going to be we re going to see the exact same extremism there. we already know there s going to be a huge fight and it s going to be played to the end with the highest stakes. marco rubio s comment, you know, goes to karen s point. it shows what he cares about now is through the republican base in 2016. to rush out right away and say this is an abuse of power and, you know, two dais ago, whenever he gave his speech, yesterday, immigration proposals, which were almost exactly the same as barack obama s, what do you know? this is a guy who wants to have it both ways and kee