The summer is coming to the close of an even-numbered year and Democrats are up in the polls, which means it’s time for them to freak out about the upcoming election.
Democrats are nothing if not a self-doubting bunch, and the 2016 election left such a psychic scar that many in the party are now conditioned to assume they’ll somehow blow it again and snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. …
The question is how to respond to the “bed-wetting,” as former Obama campaign manager David Plouffe memorably called the liberal tendency to see only the dark linings of silver clouds. … “We’ve been handing out rubber sheets for a year and half,” said one Biden adviser who requested anonymity to speak candidly about other Democrats. CONT.
Alex Seitz-Wald, NBC News
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