Or if she failed to get the Speaker job in 2007, could that prevent or limit the damage of 2016 Presidential Election?
Or has the rot been set in for sometime before Pelosi was a whip, and Democrat was heading for the defeat in 2016 anyway, with or without Trump.
The loss of rural and white male votes and the pandering for liberal activists votes has been going on for so long and so deep that the defeat in OTL is hard to butterfly away, and replacing Pelosi with a more right-leaning figure would still not do much. Is that really the case?
Or has the rot been set in for sometime before Pelosi was a whip, and Democrat was heading for the defeat in 2016 anyway, with or without Trump.
The loss of rural and white male votes and the pandering for liberal activists votes has been going on for so long and so deep that the defeat in OTL is hard to butterfly away, and replacing Pelosi with a more right-leaning figure would still not do much. Is that really the case?