Bernie is wrong. Yes, we should be moving to be more Progressive, but the Biden admin did quite an admirable job pulling us out of the first trump fiasco and implementing Progressive policies, legislation and actual action that is making America work again, with good paying union jobs and infrastructure and renewable energy. Where in the hell has Bernie been the last four years? This is not about policy and abandoning the working class. This is about the very wealthy controlling the narrative. Misinformation and disinformation has distorted the concept...

If we could turn back time Donald Trump was always such a monumentally flawed candidate — and human being — that it’s been very hard for many or most of us who can see his gross villainy and venality and stupidity to wrap our heads around his electability. How can a man remain electable after fomenting a deadly insurrection against our democracy, after a rape liability verdict, after being arrested in four separate criminal cases — and, in the case that finally made its way to court, being found guilty...

CNN host Fareed Zakaria said in a column published Friday that Democratic Party influence with working-class voters has cratered so badly in recent years that it's time to give up on appealing to that bloc."Democrats have many electoral advantages," Zakaria explained in a Washington Post column. "They have a solid base of college-educated professionals, women and minorities. Many of the swing voters who have helped them win the popular vote in seven of the past nine presidential elections are registered independents and suburbanites." "Perhaps they should lean into their new...

Bernie Sanders is nominally listed as an Independent representing the state of Vermont but everyone knows where his heart is. He ran for the Democratic nomination in 2016 and 2020 and lost to the eventual presidential candidate each time. During those campaigns, Sanders was the outsider fighting long odds, with little support from Democratic regulars within the party apparatus. In his post-mortem review of the disastrous 2024 election, Sanders called out his party for their abandonment of the electorate that had been the backbone of Democratic support since FDR promised...