i was responding to your weak claim
I'm not sure what you interpret my claim to be.
I brought up Obama's victory in 2008. I was old enough to be one of the people who were pretty damned excited when he won. I too believed that it was a watershed moment signaling that the long nightmare of the Reagan Revolution (and for that matter weak Democratic Party Centrism of Bill Clinton) was finally over.
In hindsight, Obama's victory was a lot more of a reactive event that a watershed moment. It was a reaction to what was perceived as a complete meltdown of the economy under GOP stewardship than a realignment of the nation with Liberal politics.
Why do I say that? In a mere two years, the nation flipped its wig and voted in Republicans across the board and at every level of government in a negative reaction to passing Obamacare and bailing out Wall Street. Talk about short memories!
We've got a similar backlash against the GOP right now. Although the economy seems to be chugging along (for now) the daily onslaught of otherworldly horrors from this administration is driving people to the Democrats in a reaction against Trump and Trumpism. Choose your poison: is he a Klan sympathizer, a Russian asset, a moron, or about to blow up the economy with a trade war that makes no sense? Concentration camps for children? About to roll back abortion rights? But how long will hatred of Trump and Trumpism keep the Democratic majority buoyed?
One thing 2010 should have taught us is that people have short memories. It can take as little as two years for people to get back to their complete selfishness and not want any part of any agenda that involves raising their own taxes in any way.
It may not be clear from my comments but I am a very old school sort of FDR/LBJ Democrat. I want to know why we can't have nice public housing in our cities that guarantee that nobody should have to spend more than 30 percent of their income on housing and why a free education beyond High School isn't a right. That old school liberalism aligns very nicely with the new crop of Democrats like AOC.
But it doesn't align well with suburban voters. They align more closely with Clinton/Obama centrism. So actual liberals, not to be confused with Democrats, may need to hunker down for a long fight moving forward that resembles the long fight behind us.
Yeah, I know: TL;DR.
Blame it on my morning cofee.