Most of the Old guard Democrats need to go. They’ve been running the same playbook for years and it’s simply not working. Voters are no longer interested in performant bills with no chance of passing and politicians that break even modest campaign promises. The population is ready for real change, to be done with the status quo.

Look at my home state of Connecticut as an example. Electricity here is among the most expensive in the nation. Our state is solidly blue, but the Democrats do very little to regulate the electrical monopoly and yet every election they trot out the same nonsense about programs that help poor people afford heat. Well guess what guys, the rest of us are suffering too. You don’t have to be below the poverty line and qualify for assistance to be hurting.

It’s the same crap nationally. We pay a lot in taxes, much of it is wasted we’re blown away on pork, and there is no meaningful change.

DNC needs to scrap the old playbook focus on issues that everybody can get behind, not just the base. Abandon wedge issues like gun control which only piss off rural moderates, stop making trans equality the hill to die on, and instead focus on things everybody wants like getting corruption out of Washington, efficient use of government funds, reducing waste, and protecting consumers from the worst offenders like big banks.

Rein in private equity a little, get big investors out of the single family housing market, make home ownership affordable. That’s the sort of thing that gets you votes.