How will Democrats shed the elitist image in time for 2020?

[Person Man]

First of all. No one that we all know should be nominated for President in 2020 or 2024. Or they are not yet a politician.

[Person Man]

John bel Edwads?

He's a cisgender, heterosexual white male from the Deep South.  That's five strikes against him already in today's Democratic Party.

This is exactly the image that we do need to shed. Someone needs to be judged based on qualifications, not race and gender. Of course the Republican party needs to learn this as well.

Bingo, and I saw this exact problem coming years ago.  From today forward, any Democratic politician who continues to say "white privilege" in public needs to be run out of the party immediately.

Do Democratic politicians actually say "white privilege," though?  Don't confuse the party with the base.

Several have this year.  While Clinton didn't, she did say that "everyone has implicit bias" in the 1st debate.  While technically true, it is quite reasonable to think that at least 100,000 people watching in the Upper Midwest took it as another deplorables style insult.

Rand Paul and Newt Gingrich said that they don't understand the black experience in America because they are not black.  Are they "elitists" now?

That's what we should be doing to.

[Person Man]

The Dems should also move to the center or the right on gun control and abortion.

We can definitely try to just do universal bg checks and no-fly-no-gun, but we can add in pathways for the restoration of gun rights at the federal level too. So we mix in 2nd Amendment with Criminal Justice Reform. That could work.

On Church-State issues, we are more tied on. If Roe is overturned, we can have a federal vote-your-conscience platform but push pro-choice laws at the state level or even just through referendums when we can.