I don’t know if I can still include myself as a loyal member of the Democratic party because of its ties to corporations and the finance industry but I will have nothing to do with the Republican party because it only serves the interests of corporations, oligarchs, and billionaires. So, I guess I am stuck with the Democratic party.
The Democratic party is still trying to recover from the 2016 election cycle. The process to select a new chairman of the DNC was contentious and it looked like the Democratic party was preparing to revamp its platform to address the issues and concerns of the voters who have abandoned it over the past 25 years. It has been a while since Tom Perez was elected as the DNC chair and it looks like the Democratic party’s old guard, i.e. the party’s members aligned with corporations and financial interests, has taken over again. I know that the party needs money to fund local, state, and national campaigns and getting money from corporations and the finance industry is easier than getting it from individual donors but that money will shackle the party to those interests the way it has done in the past. It will limit the ability of the party to develop the political strategies to win back voters who view the party as being out-of-touch with their social / political beliefs and not having the political will to drive governmental policies which are in the best social and economic interest of workers, families, and communities.
The Trump administration has demonstrated that the Trump campaign’s populist political rhetoric was a ruse. It was used as a tool to just win the 2016 election. The administration has no intention of putting the populist policies and programs in place to help workers, families, and communities. The Trump campaign used it to motivate Trump voters and confuse / demoralize voters who would normally vote for democrats. The Trump campaign’s nationalist rhetoric was used as subterfuge to reach voters who didn’t support president Obama because he was black.
I think the DNC should evaluate Trump campaign’s populist political rhetoric,identify the threads which are consistent with the core beliefs of traditional FDR democrats and use them in the 2018 political campaign. The rhetoric should of course be re-cast for use by the Democratic party. This strategy will make it difficult for the RNC to counter because of what Trump said and committed to during the 2016 election. It will also enable the DNC to use communications channels established in the 2016 election cycle to reach voters.