Tag: Daniel Denvir

On the same night that Alexandria won, Ben Jealous took on the Democratic establishment in Maryland and became the Democratic gubernatorial nominee. If you look at what Alexandria was talking about, what I talk about, what other progressives talk about, by and large, they are very popular, not only among people who consider themselves Democrats or progressives but the American people as a whole. When we talk about pay equity for women, the American people overwhelmingly support that. The ideas we are talking about make sense in every state of the country. That’s what we’ve got to do.” Then they come out and vote, and progressives and Democrats win. When you don’t have a program that appeals to working people and ideas that get people excited, when you have low voter turnout, that’s the Republicans’ dream. A lot of people in Democratic Socialists of America advocate supporting candidates in Democratic primaries, as they did for your 2016 run and with Ocasio-Cortez, but also believe it’s necessary to build a more radical, independent power base outside of the Democratic Party. We have been trying, with some success, to not only open the doors of the Democratic Party to working people and young people, but change the party’s rules as well. There are a lot of ways that we are making progress, not only by electing progressives, but by changing rules — by trying to open the doors and bring people in. When you do that, people will do not only well in politics and win elections, but it will improve life in the United States of America.