Democrats take shots at one another in their hunt for a winning economic plan

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Union leader RoseAnn Demoro has equally strong views about what will fail Democrats: Ryan’s corporate-friendly approach, which she complains the party has clung to since Bill Clinton entered the White House. “In any other place they would have fired the entire group of people and started from a different narrative after the last election,” said the executive director of National Nurses United. “Not the Democrats. They have lost a thousand seats in the last decade and they are still staying the course.”

Moderates are now scrambling to rebrand and reassert the “Clintonomics” that served them so well in the 1990s and into the Obama administration, including embracing global trade and collaborating with industry. But Hillary Clinton’s stinging loss has become a major drag on a platform that stops far short of progressives’ promises of Medicare for all, free college, expanded Social Security, increased taxes on the rich and protectionist trade policies.

California Sen. Kamala Harris is among those caught in the crossfire. Activists on the left created a vivid meme that attacked her as a “centrist corn cob” — an insult progressives hurl at politicians they accuse of twisting themselves into positions palatable to the center. They cited her decision while California attorney general not to prosecute billionaire Steven T. Mnuchin, now Trump’s Treasury secretary, for misdeeds state investigators uncovered at the California bank Mnuchin ran. Their meme went viral after Center for American Progress President Neera Tanden, a longtime advisor to Hillary Clinton, called on Sanders to tell his supporters to knock it off.

“Sandersism is the only cause on offer for Democrats right now,” Cowan said. “It didn’t win in the primary. It hasn’t been winning since the primary. It’s incumbent on Democrats to create and offer a true alternative to this.”

Once they do, it’s going to be a tough sell in a party that has grown impatient with its own establishment. Demoro, the union executive, has her own prediction on how it will be received by the voters that Democrats are eager to win back: “This is how it reads to middle America: ‘They are smug, they are not listening, they are not capable of listening.’”

http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-democrats-trump-economy-20170824-story.html

 

[phrodeau]

Someone will need to pick up the pieces after the economy implodes under Trump, just as they did after George W. Bush.

 

[SweetCupcake]

Someone will need to pick up the pieces after the economy implodes under Trump, just as they did after George W. Bush.

Exactly.

 

[Hypoxia]

Of course Dums take shots at each other. That's what pols do. Party loyalty is tenuous.

"I'm not a member of any organized political party. I'm a Democrat."
--Will Rogers

Can the current Dum establishment put together an economy-saving plan? Ha.