While everyone over analyzes these last two races on why Dems lose, they will, as usual, ignore some basic facts. Republicans are driven by 3 things, fear of being forced to be decent people by not being allowed to be racist bigots, nationalism in the America is number 1, needs to be made "great" again and anyone who thinks we should take examples from other countries or says we are not number 1 is a traitor, and hate. Hate that they are not rich, hate that anyone should get help, anyone other than them that is, hate that people are not uniformly white, straight, science deniers.
They will continue to crawl over glass to lie, cheat and steal their way to win elections.
Dems lose because of two things. Republicans do not have a better nature to appeal to and the large, and ever growing population that is sick of both parties because they see both as corrupt, useless wastes of time. I hear that all the time now, the DNC is weak and pandering, which they are as evidenced by all the times we "kept our powder dry" over the last 30 years and the Republicans are cutt throat, bloodthirsty and only care about power.
We need a cutt throat Party who will kick ass for us, fight like Republicans have against lgbtq, gays and science. We lose because our party members curl up in little balls and give ground. Americans like winners, winners at any costs.
Dems need to act like Republicans and stop running from the fights, stop trying to appease or work across the aisle, it never works when dealing with hate, fear and arrogance.