This is not the United States of the 1990s. The politics of that bygone era don't work anymore.
The Republican Party is, not to put too fine a point on it, going insane. That's an opportunity for Democrats. Will their party run with an uninspiring and unpopular "centrist" agenda, and pray that their opponents will always be as incompetent as Cuccinelli? Or will they build an agenda for the future, based on the world -- and the electorate -- as it exists today and will be tomorrow?
There's something else Democrats should remember -- something which was proved by Barack Obama's upset victory in 2008, something that was demonstrated by the victories of Elizabeth Warren in Massachusetts, Sherrod Brown in Ohio, and Jeff Merkley in Oregon.
To paraphrase another old saying: In a race between a Democrat and a Democrat, the Democrat wins every time.
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