Current Events > Democrats getting their Bernie on

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http://www.politico.com/story/2017/04/dems-populist-agenda-sanders-trump-237114

Democrats are beginning to craft an economic message for 2018 that goes beyond the tempting, single-minded strategy of demonizing Donald Trump.

Licking their wounds after an embarrassing showing in November, Democrats vowed to charge into next year’s midterms with a proactive sales pitch to voters. While many, including party leaders, have fallen right back into the same anti-Trump pattern they say cost them 2016 in the first place, top Democrats now say they’re working on “a strong, sharp-edged, bold economic message,” as Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer put it Tuesday.

The package will be “populist” and designed to “unite both wings of both caucuses,” one senior Democratic aide said. Infrastructure and trade are expected to be key components, another aide confirmed.

Though Democrats have long diagnosed their failure to put forth a compelling economic message as a root cause of their crushing 2016 losses, their pursuit of a populist package this year reflects the lasting influence of Bernie Sanders’ presidential bid on their longer-term agenda. And after initially sending different signals about their plans, with aides expecting a cohesive campaign message would not emerge until next year, House and Senate Democrats now insist they are moving on the same track.

etc etc, party moving to the left on policy, etc etc

Keith Ellison aside, I think this is a positive sign. The Dems have admitted they have a problem, and they're on the way to fixing it, at least by outward appearances... Now that Clintonism has failed them, it seems they're open to becoming more of a Bernie Sanders populist-style party.

I think that's probably for the best. When they moved to the center in the 1990s, it gave them short-term electoral success, but long-term it enabled the Republicans to run way, way to the radical right, where most of them still are to this day.

As horrendous as Trump's been, and as energized as the Democratic base is right now, the GOP's going to have a heck of a time defending the House in 2018, if not the Senate... If the party also starts moving in Bernie's direction, they're going to snap up a looooot of the blue collar voters they lost last year, and make a looooot of gains. We'll see how far they're willing to go in Bernie's direction, but I honestly wouldn't be surprised if you started to see a lot of Democrats start making an earnest push for single-payer.

Hats off to Bernie, he saw the long game and he played his cards right. Maybe there's hope for the future after all.

I heard the DNC doesn't like progressives and cater more towards the corporate democrats. :(
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Glass_Phantom posted...

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/04/dems-populist-agenda-sanders-trump-237114

Democrats are beginning to craft an economic message for 2018 that goes beyond the tempting, single-minded strategy of demonizing Donald Trump.

Licking their wounds after an embarrassing showing in November, Democrats vowed to charge into next year’s midterms with a proactive sales pitch to voters. While many, including party leaders, have fallen right back into the same anti-Trump pattern they say cost them 2016 in the first place, top Democrats now say they’re working on “a strong, sharp-edged, bold economic message,” as Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer put it Tuesday.

The package will be “populist” and designed to “unite both wings of both caucuses,” one senior Democratic aide said. Infrastructure and trade are expected to be key components, another aide confirmed.

Though Democrats have long diagnosed their failure to put forth a compelling economic message as a root cause of their crushing 2016 losses, their pursuit of a populist package this year reflects the lasting influence of Bernie Sanders’ presidential bid on their longer-term agenda. And after initially sending different signals about their plans, with aides expecting a cohesive campaign message would not emerge until next year, House and Senate Democrats now insist they are moving on the same track.

etc etc, party moving to the left on policy, etc etc

the GOP's going to have a heck of a time defending the House in 2018, if not the Senate

Lol

The delusion is strong with this one
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Yeah, I mean, this is all pretty much common sense. Them Muricans though. You mean having a government that actually gives a s*** about putting public money to good use investing in universal health care, tuition free college education, and other public services is better than a government that is bought by the military industrial complex and puts 60% of the GDP in the f***** military? I'm shocked.
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He should have won.
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"These days, the American dream is more apt to be realized in South America, in places such as Ecuador, Venezuela and Argentina, where incomes are actually more equal today than they are in the land of Horatio Alger. Who's the banana republic now?"

- Bernie Sanders
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