Governments are good. Governments make our lives better. Governments keep corporations in line and working toward our common good. We need government run courts, police, schools, transportation agencies in order to be a prosperous modern country. In a Democracy, the government is not some destructive force – the government is us.
It is sad that we have to make that case, but we do. Disgust with Republican failures does not mean that voters will simply turn to the Democrats.
Democrats have to come up with some formulation of that message, or just get used to constantly losing to Republicans with a clear message in the service of hair-brained, destructive and anti-American policies.