Doris Kearns Goodwin: Dems ‘Have to Become a Reverse Tea Party’

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DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN: Yeah, it makes us think they’re even worse than— they have nothing. I don’t have to worry about them. I just worry about the media. I mean, the concern I have about the Democrats right now is that they have to analyze honestly why they lost. And they didn’t lose just in Washington.

And they can’t just be an opposition party in Washington. I don’t see how they can because they like government too much. So they’re not going to be able to undo everything. They have to become a reverse Tea Party. They have to go out to middle America and figure out. Lincoln once said, “You’ve got to know where you came from to know what to do next.” So they’ve got to figure out, “Why did we lose the state houses? Did we not reach middle America?” And it can’t just be anti-Trump. They have to reach out to the values of the Democratic Party.