Re: POTUS 45.12: Dan, does it take courage when encountering the covfefe?
It's not Pelosi's fault, she was a good Speaker. But I agree we need a demographic revolution among our leadership. We need to promote unabashed economic liberals, and young people, in that order.
One reason the Dems spend so much time obsessing over their social liberal bona fides is they do virtually nothing to promote real economic liberalism. They try to stop the GOP's headlong rush to feudalism, yes, but they don't try to roll back the last 40 years to a proudly liberal economic state of affairs. That positive, active agenda would do a lot to revive the moribund party, and as importantly it would makes leaders fish or cut bait. The Evan Bayh foot in both camps wishy washy centrists would either evolve or be shut out of leadership slots.
The Dems can support center or even center-right candidates in deep red states and districts, and even give them plum committees appointments in areas that are of particular importance to those states (Robert Byrd, anyone?), but the visible leadership should be unified in outspoken economic liberalism: all class war, all the time.
The simple truth is the rich have raped America for forty years and people know it. The message "you stole our sh-t, we're clawing it back" will sell.
