Wow, this is an interesting topic. I think Dems are some of the absolute worst when it comes to political strategy. Also, feels like zero sticking together.
Republicans, for example, have a 100% litmus test or you’re not only out, you’re fodder for attack and even death threats. They curtail discord within the party with literal threats to your kids and what not. For instance, disagreeing with Trump led to that in every instance, even expulsion from the party. Cornyn wanted to discuss gun rights, and he’s attacked on the spot. There is zero room for political discourse or outsider thinking within the GOP. 100% conformity or you’re the object of the next attack.
Whereas, the Dems are a collection of literally hundreds of groups, if not more…all with their collective agenda, issues and many fight against each other regularly.
The GOP has a linear ideology…supply side/trickle down economics, against immigration from Latin American countries, African countries, Caribbean…corporate power, and since the late 70s wants essentially a Christian specific country (though if they got that, they’d go back to fighting each other over who’s Christian and who’s not). Everything else is just fodder to rally the masses.
The Dems USED to be about worker’s rights, period. Then, in 1948 with the push for civil rights, they spawned the fore bearers of the neoconservatives, the Dixiecrat. It then became the civil rights party and it’s hitched its wagon to that to this day.
But, from Nader’s fight for safer cars, the press on smoking causing cancer (which is wild we even had that debate) by which the modern GOP fought tooth and nail against, the idea of serving the worker, the citizen and not the corporation is the underlying component that is still in the thread, though diminished and outshined with bullshit Twitter appeals, microaggression talk, etc.
No, I don’t think Dems are good at sticking together in the slightest, not good at strategy at all. I think the DNC, itself, is just abysmal in every situation.