I keep doing post’s on the post Trump, new Biden Democratic party….
The main point I have made is the ‘big tent’ party cannot move forward on strictly progressive ideology ….
It won’t work…
Joe Biden ran against a bully that did not care much about anything but himself…
Others down ballot tried to run on some of the policies of progressives …
THAT did NOT work out the progressive districts across the states for House races….
Nor did it work much for states that most Democrats running for the US Senate across the country…
The below linked piece points to The Hill piece that advances the idea that Democrats should run on Enviromental , Healthcare and Job enhancing policy….The basic’s…
But?
This won’t be easy….
Biden/Harris brought the suburban more educated voters to them…
They can’t be forgotten ….
Nor can the down ballot races that Biden/Harris did NOT carry….
Democrats have their work cut for themselves and they only have a little more tha. a year before the next round of House races kick in….
With Trump out of office, some Democrats say the party should fill the void of economic populism he’ll be leaving behind by aiming their policies and rhetoric at lifting working-class Americans who have felt ignored by Washington.
And they feel a renewed urgency to build out a centralized campaign infrastructure. They’re calling on President-elect Joe Biden to work on rebuilding the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and for party operatives to train their focus on winning state legislative races that Republicans have dominated.
“The 2020 election was a referendum on Donald Trump, plain and simple,” said Robert Reich, a former Labor secretary under President Clinton and economic adviser to President Obama. “Democrats really have not had to worry about their message or having substantive policy proposals over the last four years. But going forward, Democrats can’t just rely on being against Trump. The question is, who do Democrats stand for and what do they stand for now in the post-Trump era?”
Democrats say that after Biden squashes the coronavirus pandemic and stabilizes the economy, he needs to steer the party in a direction where it can credibly claim to be representing working people and not the monied class.
The rural-urban partisan divide has never been greater, and Democrats worry that they risk becoming the party of educated cultural elites when their own base is energized by the economic populism espoused by leftists such as Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.)….
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“I don’t think Democrats can sustain themselves as the party of the college educated,” Reich said. “There aren’t enough of them, and it leaves a huge void in American politics. … Biden could still fill it. He has working-class roots and he’s connected to labor unions, but both rhetorically and in terms of policy, he’s got to show Americans he’s on the side of the bottom two-thirds who have all but been forgotten.”….