Problem with being a "grassroots" party is that in a lot of peoples' minds, "grass" only puts down "roots" in some mythical small-town and rural Mayberry fantasy.
Problem with being a "working/middle class" party is that those who are already locked out of even this increasingly oppressive cheap-labor economy are automatically excluded.
Problem with being a "populist" party is that a whole lot of creative, intelligent, progressive people who equate "populist" with the Nuclear Cheeto and his demagoguery aren't going to play that game.
Problem with "again" is that the Democratic Party almost never WAS all of those things at once- it has always been a struggle for the soul of the Party against those who would limit it to "people like US." Even when "people like US" meant white male Union leadership, in coalition with some progressive anti-war and Civil Rights advocates, it rarely pulled off much of a real 'big tent' appeal.
The reason the "solid South" was solid for so many decades was based in the history of Lincoln's Republican Party, the Reconstruction, and Jim Crow.
Problem with "everywhere" is that all of those words have different meanings, depending on where you are.
The Democratic Party has always been a better *idea* than reality.
Now the train wreck is happening, can we focus on saving as much as we can, and then work on the whole 'definitions' thing, including ALL of the people helping us with the salvage work? The poor, the unemployed, the urban, the intellectual, the rural, the female, the brown, the atheist, the LGBT, and ALL who will be suffering under the Putsch?
suggestively,
Bright
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