Every Democrat should read this article in the NY Times. [View all]

[kentuck]

If Jon Ossoff wins his primary in Georgia on the 20th, Democrats should study his race very carefully. Do they go the way of Bernie Sanders or do they go a different way? Or do they find a way to unite the different ideas of Bernie Sanders and Jon Ossoff? We may think Bernie would have beaten Donald Trump in the last election but that is not a certainty. He won many races with the caucus system but lost to Hillary Clinton in most of the races where the popular vote was counted. How much does the Party need to change? For what it's worth:
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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/11/us/democrats-midterm-elections.html

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Yet the party’s elected leaders, and many of its candidates, are far more dispassionate, sharing a cold-eyed recognition of the need to scrounge for votes in forbidding precincts. They have taken as a model the Democratic campaign of 2006, when the party won control of Congress in part by competing for conservative corners of the country and recruiting challengers who broke with liberal orthodoxy.

Outside Atlanta on Friday, Jon Ossoff offered a decidedly un-Sanders-like vision of the future in Georgia’s Sixth Congressional District, a conservative-leaning patchwork of office plazas and upscale malls, where voters attended his campaign events wearing golf shirts and designer eyewear.

In a special election that has become the most expensive House race in history, Mr. Ossoff, a 30-year-old former congressional aide, presented himself as essentially anti-ideological. Greeting suburban parents near a playground and giving a pep talk to volunteers, he stressed broadly popular policies like fighting air and water pollution and preserving insurance coverage for people with pre-existing conditions.

Bucking the left, Mr. Ossoff said in an interview that he would not support raising income taxes, even for the wealthy, and opposed “any move” toward a single-payer health care system. Attacked by Republicans for his ties to national liberals, Mr. Ossoff said he had not yet given “an ounce of thought” to whether he would vote for Nancy Pelosi, the House Democratic leader, in a future ballot for speaker.

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