Democrats – fractious and floundering

  The US Democratic Party is floundering faced with a single-minded and enmeshed Republican Party, with no obvious front runners who will appeal to the electorate.‘The party is split between a radicalised younger vote, which is increasingly Maga-like in tactics and tone, and an ageing establishment that is short of ideas.’  The Graham Platner debacle was one indication. A candidate for the Maine Senate he had not been properly vetted, was not a blue-collar candidate of his