Corbin Tent, The Nation - Though Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio Cortez have drawn big crowds... Democrats need to do more than just fill arenas.
Democrats have officially hit rock bottom. An NBC News poll last week put the party’s approval at just 27 percent among voters—the lowest ever recorded. Yet Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, and Hakeem Jeffries insist the party doesn’t need a new direction. ....
Meanwhile, Donald Trump and Elon Musk are systematically dismantling American democracy—targeting ActBlue, revoking security clearances from law firms that opposed him, gutting federal agencies—and the Democrats’ response? Total silence. They’ve completely disappeared from the national conversation.
After Trump’s first victory in 2016, Pelosi was asked if Democrats needed to rethink their approach. Her response? “I don’t think that people want a new direction.” And she’s still saying it. Days after Trump’s reelection—after he won the popular vote, despite being indicted and convicted, and after voters delivered a clear message—Pelosi sat for a New York Times interview and flat-out rejected any suggestion that Democrats need to change. She dismissed Bernie Sanders’s criticism that Democrats have abandoned working-class voters, saying, “I just completely disagree,” insisting that they’re still “the kitchen table, working-class party of America.” That’s beyond delusional—it’s political malpractice.
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