by Barbara G. Ellis \/ September 4th, 2018<\/p>\n
The challenge by progressives to Democratic party leaders for November\u2019s midterms\u2014and the 2020 presidential election\u2014is to tone down the anti-Trump focus and play up domestic planks as did the Great Depression\u2019s president Franklin D. Roosevelt (\u201cFDR\u201d) to solve the nation\u2019s critical domestic needs. Campaigners do not want to waste time and energies in yet another party defeat because the party continues to abandon the interests of millions once under its \u201cbig tent\u201d in catering to the interests of banks, big business, and the rich.<\/em><\/p>\n *****<\/p>\n So Democratic party\u2019s leaders finally surrendered to its progressive wing\u2019s demand to disallow the 716 superdelegates bloc to vote on the first ballot for a presidential nominee in 2020. That took two years at hard labor for progressive movements to wear down the Democratic National Committee (DNC) movers-shakers from using this Machiavellian tactic to stop a super-popular candidate from blocking its hand-picked pro-corporate nominee.<\/p>\n To move the party back to its base and prioritize today\u2019s domestic needs that campaigners can offer voters will require fighting the DNC cabal\u2019s long-practiced backroom tricks and threats. A few days before the Chicago annual meeting of members was the cabal\u2019s\u00a030-2<\/a> vote reversing the rules committee\u2019s two-month-old ban on taking donations from union leaders in the fossil-fuel industry. That will keep the doors open to company…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n