The Newest Deal: Dems build a progressive platform for 2020

[Uncle Joe]

Democrats may have no idea yet who will be topping their presidential ticket in 2020; as many two dozen potential candidates have hinted they might run against Donald Trump. But due in large part to these White House wannabes, the party’s new, post-Barack-Obama platform is already coming into focus, and it’s full of unabashedly left-wing ideas that represent a sharp break with Hillary Clinton’s technocratic tendency toward nine-point plans and a growing embrace of bold, Bernie Sanders–style liberalism.

“You have to have a small number of big, easy-to-understand ideas,” Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., recently told Yahoo News. “Trump had those. Bernie Sanders had those. But it didn’t seem to me that the Clinton campaign did. I don’t know that anybody in Connecticut could have listed a specific economic proposal from the Clinton campaign. They had great ideas. The ideas just didn’t light anybody’s fire.”

Whether the emerging Democratic platform lights anybody’s fire remains to be seen. It’s far to the left of anything the party has proposed since the 1970s, and sounds more like the to-do list of a Scandinavian parliament than Bill Clinton’s triangulated politics or even Obama’s careful, consensus-seeking progressivism.

But in the age of Trump, Democrats aren’t just looking for the man or woman who can depose the disrupter in chief. They’re also looking for a message that can break through and connect with voters who defected or stayed home in 2016.

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https://www.yahoo.com/news/newest-deal-dems-build-progressive-platform-2020-090052433.html

Video and some of the new ideas are listed on the link

[murielm99]

1. The ideas of Hillary Clinton,

her policies and the Democratic platform were not publicized in the news. They concentrated on her email and gave 45 about a billion dollars in free publicity.

Bold, Bernie Sanders type ideas? You mean lots of free shit? With no plan on how to pay for it? What nonsense. We have plenty of talented people and a good message. We had a good message n 2016.