The Democratic party should use this inflection point to shift ground – from being the party of well-off college graduates, big corporations, “never-Tumpers” like Dick Cheney and vacuous “centrism” – to an anti-establishment party ready to shake up the system on behalf of the vast majority of Americans.
This is and should be the Lesson of the 2024 election.
It should have been the lesson in 2010, too. In 2008 Obama ran on "No more too big to fail" and "We're going to get the people behind the financial crisis". Then, as President in charge of the Department of Justice, he did nothing. I think that's why the Republicans swept the mid-term elections.
Don't get me wrong, the Affordable Care Act is fantastic. But I think voters had figured out that Obama gave nice progressive speeches but wasn't serious about challenging any other part of the status quo.
Robert Reich
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