Dear Democrats: A Little Humility, Please. Sincerely, Blue Dogs

For moderate House Democrats, the post-mortem conclusions about what happened Nov. 5 come down to being humble, authentic and willing to listen.

Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez’s local run-into-your-neighbor meeting place is a dump. Literally.

“Our kind of community center where I live is actually the dump, because we don’t have trash service. So that’s where you see your neighbors that you don’t live near,” the Washington Democrat told HuffPost in an interview.

“To be considered there to be hardworking and honest and loyal,” she said — “that’s what matters to me.”

Stemming from that approach, Gluesenkamp Perez’s message to her fellow Democrats quietly reeling from the Nov. 5 election losses is pretty simple: be humble, be authentic and be willing to listen.

As Democrats sift through the wreckage of their losses, some of which were very close (a House with another historically narrow margin) and some of which were not close at all (Donald Trump’s electoral vote total), they are looking for answers.