One of the many insightful and evocative things that he said was, “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”

We see this quote made manifest with big donors deciding that they need to fund more progressive candidates even while the parasitic consultant class in Washington, DC insists on trying to deliver rich guys who stand for nothing.

I understand why: If they the only thing to recommend a candidate is his money, then he will spend a lot of money, and the consultants get paid a percentage of the media buys.

Still the fact that the rich pigs of the Democratic Party get this is significant:

As the debate rages among Democrats about how best to position the party to defeat President Trump in 2020, many big donors are signaling early support for expanding and firing up the party’s liberal base rather than backing centrist appeals targeting the Rust Belt.

Even though middle-of-the-road Democrats helped propel the party to broad gains in the House in the midterm elections this month, especially in coastal suburbs, influential donors signaled in postelection meetings that their priority would be to back progressive appeals in Sun Belt states.

Actually, if you look at the elections, the unexpected wins were overwhelmingly from people from the Democratic wing of the Democratic party, though a lot of this might be because the DCCC and DNC went out of their way to ensure that they staked out safe seats for people who stand for nothing but fund raising.

Efforts in particular to register and mobilize minority and low-income voters in the South and Southwest, they said, present greater potential return on investment for Democrats than trying to win back the white Midwestern voters who helped elect Mr. Trump.

While left-leaning Democrats fell short in some high-profile races across the South — most notably Representative Beto O’Rourke’s effort to defeat Senator Ted Cruz in Texas and Stacey Abrams’s narrow loss in her campaign to become governor of Georgia — the gains they made underscored the changing demographics of traditionally Republican states and the long-term opportunity for Democrats, the donors said.

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That assessment aligns with the passions of the party’s increasingly powerful small-donor base, creating a potentially potent early financial foundation for prospective presidential candidates who appeal to the party’s left flank.

There really needs a return to the 50-State Strategy, which devolved authority, and money, from the party headquarters to the state and local organizations.

Everyone wins but the incompetent leeches inside the Beltway.