No, it's pretty much their own fault

Democrats to Obama: You broke the party, now fix it

Phooey.

The party's agenda, its propaganda, and its outlook are increasingly captive to people who have little loyalty to and don't much like the white working class that was the corner-stone of the New Deal coalition.

In fact, the Democrats generally make no bones about it and not only tolerate but encourage hatred of those same whites.

The trade deal with China, the eco-deal with China, the rejection of the Canada pipeline, the big effort to legalize millions of illegals and open up the country to more low wage immigration, and repeated "rush to judgment" White House and Democrat support for racist attacks on whites falsely accused of racist crimes all are among only the latest moves to put the party in direct opposition to its New Deal base.

So far have things gone that when party leaders refer to their base these days no one thinks they are talking about labor, anymore, not even labor leaders or union members.

Everyone knows they are talking about racial and sexual minorities, some of the latter incredibly miniscule, single women, and special interest groups like the environmentalist pressure groups, many of whom the Democrats have regularly sought to please by egregiously sacrificing the interests of the working class as a whole, or anyway the white working class.

And it hasn't done the Democrats any good that no bankers or financial whiz-bangers went to jail for creating the disaster of 2008 and all of the gains of the recovery since, like most of the gains since Bill Clinton, have gone exclusively to make the upper 1% even more fabulously wealthy.

Obama is not the cause of all this, though the periodically visible and at all times unquestionable racial chip on his shoulder has not helped at all and he and his advisers, Al Sharpton especially included, are at fault for that.

And, anyway, this is not what the party folks think is the problem, and they are not spending time thinking how to win back the working class.

Any more than the conservatives understood that it was their control of the Republican Party that lost the election of 2012 for Mitt Romney and continues to limit the ability of the GOP to get a majority during presidential years.

And take a look at this, from Atrios.

Democrats should embrace liberal brand

But he's not writing about the label, "liberal," which is far from meaning what it used to mean to a whole lot of people, anyway.

What he's really recommending is that Democrats make a lot more of their support for working-class friendly positions so people will perceive them as friends of the little guy.

Get it?

Some Democrats understand the party needs those white working class votes back.

Labeling themselves with a word they and their enemies together have poisoned over the decades, "liberal," would actually hurt in that effort.

Update.

Just as conservatives would rather see the Republicans lose than drop their cause, to repeal over a century of progressivism, today's liberals feel the same way about the Democrats and their cause.

Or, rather, causes, I should say, since they are numerous and, to be fair, include but do not prioritize the interests of the American white working class.

Far from it!

They are themselves captives of the racist elements of their coalition whose politics are an expression of resentment, mistrust, and hatred of white people.