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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAbout the Democratic Party's resurgence, fom Katrina vanden Heuvel at "The Washington Post":
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/no-the-resistance-isnt-failing-at-the-voting-booth-heres-where-its-winning/2017/05/30/36bf9aa6-44d2-11e7-98cd-af64b4fe2dfc_story.html?utm_term=.21a20417436e-----------------------------
No, the resistance isnt failing at the voting booth. Heres where its winning."
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Also notable in these victories is the growing infrastructure of progressive groups engaged in supporting transformative candidates. Our Revolution, an offshoot of the Sanders campaign, isnt alone in the field. Working Families Party, MoveOn.org and many other groups all raise money, volunteers and attention for progressive champions.
These candidates are not your standard Democrats. Like Sanders, they are campaigning for bold change. They pledge an end to corruption. They support aggressive public action for working people $15 minimum wage, investment in infrastructure, renewal of public education and making public college tuition free. This is now increasingly reflected at the national level as well, with Democratic legislators coming out for a $15 minimum wage, a major infrastructure jobs agenda and progressive tax reform.
To paraphrase Mark Twain, reports of the insurgencys death are premature. In reality, it has just begun to build. Activists continue to flood Republican town meetings. GOP health-care and budget plans generate ever-greater opposition. Democrats victories at the state and local level may well augur what is yet to come.
Democrats start from a very deep hole, having lost more than 900 state legislative seats over the past eight years, leaving Republicans in complete control of 23 states. With Trump in the White House and the right dominating Republican majorities in both houses of Congress, capital-D and small-d democrats have every reason to despair. The Democratic Party apparatus still seems hidebound and timid. But the resistance is real. And the demand for fundamental change sparked by the Sanders insurgency is still building inside and outside the Democratic Party. Republicans are entrenched, backed by big money and a sophisticated right-wing infrastructure. But progressives are mobilized and just may be turning from protest to power.
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Also notable in these victories is the growing infrastructure of progressive groups engaged in supporting transformative candidates. Our Revolution, an offshoot of the Sanders campaign, isnt alone in the field. Working Families Party, MoveOn.org and many other groups all raise money, volunteers and attention for progressive champions.
These candidates are not your standard Democrats. Like Sanders, they are campaigning for bold change. They pledge an end to corruption. They support aggressive public action for working people $15 minimum wage, investment in infrastructure, renewal of public education and making public college tuition free. This is now increasingly reflected at the national level as well, with Democratic legislators coming out for a $15 minimum wage, a major infrastructure jobs agenda and progressive tax reform.
To paraphrase Mark Twain, reports of the insurgencys death are premature. In reality, it has just begun to build. Activists continue to flood Republican town meetings. GOP health-care and budget plans generate ever-greater opposition. Democrats victories at the state and local level may well augur what is yet to come.
Democrats start from a very deep hole, having lost more than 900 state legislative seats over the past eight years, leaving Republicans in complete control of 23 states. With Trump in the White House and the right dominating Republican majorities in both houses of Congress, capital-D and small-d democrats have every reason to despair. The Democratic Party apparatus still seems hidebound and timid. But the resistance is real. And the demand for fundamental change sparked by the Sanders insurgency is still building inside and outside the Democratic Party. Republicans are entrenched, backed by big money and a sophisticated right-wing infrastructure. But progressives are mobilized and just may be turning from protest to power.
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About the Democratic Party's resurgence, fom Katrina vanden Heuvel at "The Washington Post": (Original Post)
tblue37
May 2017
OP
I agree!!! The insurgency is now within the Democratic Party, as well as between parties.
LongTomH
May 2017
#4
Agreed. The Democratic Party will not win by merely being the anti-Trump Party.
guillaumeb
May 2017
#5
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)1. Recommended.
The Nation is an excellent resource an has been for many years. But will the Democratic Party allow actual Democratic voters to have real input into the Party platform and direction?
tblue37
(65,274 posts)2. Thanks. nt
LongTomH
(8,636 posts)4. I agree!!! The insurgency is now within the Democratic Party, as well as between parties.
The Democratic party has been losing younger voters for years - sorry, but, it's a fact. I see it in my younger friends; they're registering as independents or looking for a 3rd party; quite a few have just abandoned politics.
Maybe we can get them back now; but, we need to fight for voters of all ages.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)5. Agreed. The Democratic Party will not win by merely being the anti-Trump Party.
Corporate power must be confronted and regulated if the country is to remain a functional democracy.
Wounded Bear
(58,629 posts)3. Good read...