Sherrod Brown: Dems will lose if we have to choose between speaking to progressive base and workers

[LiberalLovinLug]

55. I'm a little confused too

In one breath he warns the party about choosing one or the other..

Then he himself stridently chooses one side and says the candidate "should be somebody whose centerpiece of the campaign is dignity of work"


It sounds defeatist to me. Like he is only stoking the divide. What he is really saying to me is....Democrats cannot address both progressive social issues and be the friend of blue collar workers at the same time, so, in his great wisdom, Democrats should just give up on one "side" (the progressive base, and the hopes of new progressive stars like AOC) and only focus on the needs of blue collar workers, in a general way. Because its just too darn hard to figure out how to connect the two for people.

The harm is in furthering the perception that there is some kind of huge divide between supporting workers rights, and at the same time supporting human rights. As if we are too inept to figure out how to do that. So, just abandon one of them.

There should be a concerted effort to show the connectivity of all the issues. That is the key. Not to give up on half your base.