CLARENCE PAGE: Time for Democrats to widen their ‘big tent’

Here we go again. We’re approaching another presidential campaign year, and once again I am reminded of what the great sage Will Rogers said back in 1933: “I am not a member of any organized political party,” he said. “I am a Democrat.” Yes, I know that Rogers quote is old enough to have whiskers on it. Yet, compared to the comparatively regimented style of the Republicans, particularly the MAGA faction that runs the party, the Democrats seem to specialize in finding new ways to snatch defeat out of the jaws of victory, especially since the two successful terms of Barack Obama. Doom and gloom might in fact be the default state of the Democrats. When Republicans and a large number of swing voters rallied around Donald Trump in 2024, he was a convicted felon, a sore-loser ex-president dishon