Democratic Party has a demographic advantage and it has an advantage on almost every policy issue there is.

Yet they have somehow managed to lose 70% of the state legislatures and every branch of government.

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On the Sunday Morning Talk shows this past weekend, CNN commentator Van Jones made it absolutely

clear that the Democratic Party has to move beyond the days of Clinton, both Hillary and Bill Clinton.

Specifically, Van Jones called out the fact that the Clinton administration and Democratic policies,

basically since the Clinton administration, had thrown black people under the bus with their

calls for prison reform, mass incarceration, and they threw workers under the bus with NAFTA

and other disastrous trade deals and the Democratic Party's overall embrace of corporatism

since the days of Bill Clinton. Now, this analysis by Van Jones, not only is it 100% spot on,

it's something that the Democratic Party needs to hear. It's something that Bernie Sanders

hit on again and again during his campaign and it's something that a lot of Democrats

refuse to acknowledge as reality. There's too many progressive pundits out there right now

saying that we still need to be a little bit moderate. We need to work with Republicans, not against them

and here's the kicker. A lot of them out there are comparing the progressive wing of the Democratic

Party to the Tea Party, saying that they're just as dangerous to the Democratic Party.

Listen, the Democratic Party in the 20th century became the party of working class America by

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