The Democrats are divided. Should the progressives or the moderates define what it means to be the party of the left-ish?

To be clear, we do not believe that language is the thing that has driven Democrats into the hole that we were in.

But a lot of Democrats talk in ways that are deeply alienating to regular voters.

This is why the Democratic Party loses because they're stuck in a boardroom somewhere

yelling at each other over this.

There's a campaign being waged by elite strategists in the Democratic Party

to move the party to the right based off of their belief that issue positions can save

their Democratic Party.

Too often, the moderate stance is the status quo.

And people are so angry with the status quo.

They are tired of feeling like politicians are doing nothing.

Whither the Big D Democrats.

It's all coming up after this.

From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.

Mike is out this week.

I'm Brooke Gladstone.

What a fall, by which I mean autumn.

But in fact, there was a fall after a rise for the

Democratic Party. On October 1st, the Dems shut the government down. So Democrats have three

words for this. No fucking way. We will not let Republicans blow up our health care system.

Oh, Chuck Schumer, so saucy.

But polls showed that we, the people, held the GOP responsible for the shutdown and rising prices.

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