Rochelle Riley: Duggan, other Dems agree: Party is in disarray

Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan offered a stinging rebuke to the Democratic Party on Thursday, warning that its disarray could give rise to a third national political party and that he was "so frustrated with the Hillary Clinton campaign, I could have screamed." "They never articulated a vision for why there would be more opportunity for people willing to work hard and get new schools," he said. "Detroit is a lot of blue-collar folks, and they never could articulate why (people should choose them). Duggan's comments came a day after Clinton told an audience at the annual Code Conference in Ranchos Palos Verdes, Calif., that she lost the election because of media coverage of her use of a private e-mail server, the broad assumption that she was going to win and widespread fake stories some believed were news. She blamed everything but her own campaigning, which was widely panned in Michigan. U.S. Rep. Brenda Lawrence, D-Southfield, who had just appeared on a panel with Dingell at the Mackinac Policy Conference on cutting through the politics of the state's bipartisan leadership, said the Democratic Party clearly is in trouble.