Politico – 10 Democratic Thinkers on What the Party Needs Right Now

After Tuesday’s sweeping electoral victory by former President Donald Trump over Vice President Kamala Harris, Politico asked 10 thinkers about what the defeated Democratic party needs right now.

Matt Duss, CIP’s executive vice president, says to listen to voters when they say that they’re hurting. Writes Duss:

It’s clear that, whatever experts might tell them about how great the economy is doing, a huge number of Americans are not feeling it in their own lives and communities. Joe Biden successfully adopted a unifying economic populist message from the party’s left in 2020, and as president took important steps to start building a more worker-centered American economy. Democrats really need to lean into that work with a vision that meets Americans from across the political spectrum where they are, and helps them see how policies often labeled “progressive” actually address the needs of workers and communities, including from purple and deep-red areas that have been passed over by globalization and corporatization of our entire economy. In the absence of that vision of shared American prosperity and security, many voters will continue to respond to demagogues who claim to feel their pain and pin the blame for it on immigrants, minorities and foreign enemies while doing nothing to actually make their lives better.

You can read the full piece, “10 Democratic Thinkers on What the Party Needs Right Now”, in Politico, including more of Duss’s comment.