How the Democrats can defend them out of forgotten

The question is how it works. Sanders and the New York congress MP Alexandria Ocasio -Cortez (35) attract large crowds with their “Fighting Oligarchy” tour, which has been driven through the middle west and restarted next week in Los Angeles. They say that they are working on reaching the voters who are angry that their lives deteriorate while 1 percent are richer.

“I think that all over the country, people, whether they are democrats, republicans or independent, are extremely unhappy to see a handful of billionaires who lead the United States government,” said Sanders.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders are working on reaching voters

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They rely on the fact that voters are starving against Trump and Elon Musk – and for new ideas that go beyond the more careful formula that the Democrats lost the last elections under the first Joe biden and then to Kamala Harris.

The opponents of their approach argue that the party should listen to undecided or non-committed voters in swing districts without spreading a message that was distributed for safe liberal seats such as the liberal seats held by Sanders and Ocasio Cortez.

However, everyone agrees that the party has to do something.

According to an SSRS survey for CNN, the lowest since at least 1992, the evaluation of Faderability fell to 29 percent last month.

In another survey published by Harvard Caps/Harris last week, 71 percent of those surveyed stated that the party needed new moderate managers.

After a bleak, long winter, the first incentives for the Democrats brought the first incentives last week. A liberal candidate won an important election at the Supreme Court of Wisconsin against a conservative candidate who was supported by Musk, who pumped 21 million US dollars into a campaign that he said that “she would influence the entire fate of humanity”.

Elon Musk was in Wisconsin after he was 21 million US

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The Democrats cut into Republican margins in two special elections for house seats in Florida (which are still lost the Democrats).

The day before Cory Booker, a Senator of New Jersey, some core democrats provided energy with a fiery 25-hour speech on the Senate floor, the longest in which he denounced Trump and Musk’s politics and referred to the legacy of civil rights leaders.

Cory Booker gave a 25-hour speech about the Senate and condemned Trump and Muschus

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Throughout the party, the ideas of how the Democrats should form their struggle range from the denial of the administration and its allies as an oligarchy to the deregulation of the government and the significant increase in the offer of living space, infrastructure and green energy (the main boost of a new book, AbundanceFrom the liberal journalists Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson) to stay calm and to hope that Trump destroys himself.

Gavin Newsom, the governor of California, has started a podcast with guests such as Steve Bannon, Trump’s former chief strategist, in which he suggested that he agreed with Maga figures to the question of transgender athletes, while he described the democratic brand “poisonous” and “poisonous”.

Tim Walz, the governor Minnesota and former vice presidential candidate, started a “real America” ​​tour, which spoke in the town halls in red districts across the country in order to draw a contrast to republicans who were warned that the town halls are not kept with the components due to concerns regarding the confronts.

James Carville, the legendary political consultant, who brought Bill Clinton to victory in 1992, called in an article in the New York Times, in which the Democrats “contest the courageous political maneuvers in the history of our party and allow the Republicans to crumble under their own weight and to miss the American people.”

Trump’s growing unpopularity has created a chance. According to a survey of the AP-NORC center published last week, the President has a net unifusible rating of minus 14 points, and six out of ten disapproved of the economy.

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For this reason, Democrats of all stripes turn away from close questions of social justice into economic issues – in particular if the fear spreads to the effects of the American consumers of Trump’s tariffs. In particular, almost every proposed solution emphasizes the need to regain the voters of the working class, which were the party’s backbone for decades.

The exit surveys after the elections in November showed that Trump won 55 percent of the working class voters (defined as such without a university degree) compared to about four out of ten who had chosen Harris. The gap was much closer four years earlier: Biden won 47 percent of her votes compared to Trumps 51 percent.

John Anzalone, a democratic storm wool, said that the party in Wisconsin and Florida was a “great psychological thrust” in Wisconsin and Florida last week who had rebuilt confidence in working people.

“Otherwise we will only win if you screw it up,” he said.

Rob Flaherty, deputy campaign director for Harris’ campaign, said that the upcoming struggle for dismissed voters would take not to appear in order to give up their ballot papers in special elections such as the last week in Wisconsin and Florida.

“We lost in 2024 because of voters who don’t be careful,” he said. “We have to attract your attention. And we have to have something to say.”

Voters who believe that the system is broken are “more difficult to reach, but they also believe that we are full of shit”.

Greg Casar, a Democratic Congressman from Texas, said that an left -wing economic populist message could combine people working across political borders. In order to regain young men, minorities and working people, the Democrats had to give them a fight to believe in it.

The answer, he said, lies in the kind of ideas that Sanders urged when he ran for the president in 2016 and 2020: billionaires cheated in America and they have to defend themselves.

“Now there are no billionaires who lead the government behind the curtain. We have the richest man on earth in public, every day on social media,” he said.

An IPSOS survey in January showed that 68 percent of the Americans believed that the economic system in the country was wrongly favored by the rich, including 52 percent of Republicans and 83 percent of Democrats. According to the Harvard survey published last week, Musk’s ratings will decrease last week.

“You have a man who cuts healthcare and education to finance tax breaks for billionaires, and people don’t like it,” said Mark Mellman, Managing Director of Mellman Group, a democratic polling station. “Today the economy was in a larger chaos than as a (Trump) office.”

Hank Shinkopf, a democratic strategist, said the party had to defend itself so that they hired young voters instead of relying on not being like Trump.

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“Losing Democrats because they stand for nothing and young people know,” he said. “You cannot win elections if you don’t stand for anything. People don’t read your thoughts and think:” Oh, he’s against Trump, so he is great. “

Bashing billionaires, he said, could be popular in some parts of the electorate, but to win, democrats would need something “more essential, with fire on the problem”.

Sanders is not convinced that the current leadership of the party has the appetite to take over Trump. Chair and play dead “is what the Democrats have done in recent years,” he said.

“If you want to do more of it and ignore the pain that the working class feels. I think you will keep falling. I think it’s time for the democrats and for serious people to have the courage to take over against the oligarchy, take the billionaire lessons and fight for an agenda that comes up with a public lesson that is politically.

“I am not sure whether the democratic leadership is able to deal with the most important crises in this country. They have very weak connections to the base in America, and that is only the sad reality.”