Putting this here because it addresses the current moral turpitude and I can't recall if we discussed it in July when it was published:
From David Brooks (yes, I like to mock him, too) in The Atlantic "Why Do So Many People Think Trump is Good?"
TL: DR--in an effort to promote personal freedoms, the modern American society has abandoned the sense of responsibility that its predecessors felt toward their community. This abandonment leaves individuals morally adrift and politics and (note, this is my addition) technology have failed to replace it in a way that settles that long-standing tension (between individual and community).
This might not be the best thread to continue a discussion on it, but I've been pondering the failure of Team Democrat in light of the ongoing post-election autopsy (Crooked Media just had an event in DC and a panel of Hasan Piker, Jessica Tarlov, Tim Miller, and Simone Sanders Townsend and they couldn't move on from talking about this). Is it candidate, communication strategy, policy, etc., that accounts for the voters moving to Trump? (or, my pet theory, that every election now is a change election)?
Anyway, I think the path forward, touched on by Brooks, is that the Democrats need to be building communities, i.e., organizing activities that aren't purely political on an ongoing basis. Run clubs, meet and greets, movies in the park, soup kitches, dances, concerts, T-ball leagues, etc. Spend all that fundraising money that otherwise is going to 30 min TV ads or Zuckerberg on reminding Americans that there is something more important that ties us together than an election every two years.
The GOP already took advantage of alt-media podcasts, the "Come for the jokes, stay for the politics" or Rogan or whoever. The Democrats shouldn't be trying to mimic that and create it's own media ecosystem, it needs to think bigger.