What should Democrats do now? Everyone has a different answer

The Democrats struggled to land a single message in the first months of President Donald Trump in the post, breaking both in congress and among supporters. What is next for a party in a difficult place?

The village farm city of Bakersfield, California, is a strange stop for a pair of progressive politicians on the east coast.

In the end, Trump won the surrounding district with 20 points in the last election, and the dusty fields and endless orchards feel a world away from the party centers of the party in Los Angeles and the bay region.

Still, Democratic Congressman Alexandria Okasio-Cortez and independent Senator Bernie Sanders packed a local audience during a recent stop on their military tour of the oligarchy. The rally felt like the 1960s style of the last century with attendees, who sing along with a gentle transmission of this land to Woody Gutri is your land. They started Rowdy Boos and Jeers every time Sanders went against Trump and technological billionaire Elon Musk.

The visit also felt in the response to a prayer for the local Democrats and the left -wing independent, who opposed Trump and his policies, while directing much of their fury to their own party, which they believe failed to carry out an effective opposition.

The Democratic Party “must do more to try to protect everyone,” said 26 -year -old Carla Alcantar, who attends the rally. “I have the feeling that some of them have just been completely folded and there are some who try to do the job of all.”

“I definitely have the feeling that they have to do more,” she said.

It’s not a great time to be a democratic politician in the United States. The party is without power. Selected employees cannot agree on a Trump agenda courses. There was no clear leader to unite the uncomfortable coalition. Different ideological and generations of factions are fighting against each other and it seems that no one is winning.

“I understand that they do not have the power to change drastically like things, but they have the power to slow down like things even a little,” said Rally’s participant Juan Doming, 26. “Honestly, I feel I don’t see any of that.”

The anger extends beyond rally.

Fifty -two percent of Democrats and democratic independent independent independently said that their party leadership was moving in the wrong direction, according to a CNN/SSRS poll conducted in mid -March, unlike 48%, which said it was moving in the right direction.

The same study implies a desire for a strong opposition: 57% wanted Democrats in Congress to try to stop the Republican Party’s agenda. This is a complete conversion of a poll in 2017, the year after Trump first won the Presidency, which suggests that 74% of Democrats and independent democratic people want leaders to work with Republicans after a division election.

“What they are pressing for is not only for democratic leaders to get out, because it will make their followers feel good,” said former Pennsylvania Congorian Konor Lamb, who held an event in a Pittsburgh Town Hall last week.

Although Lamb said he was not running for office at the moment, he felt hungry at the democratic base.

“I think they feel like the survival of the system we all relied on is the line itself and they want us to act with this emergency level,” Lamb told the BBC. “I think it is important for us not to forget, just to be the defenders of things that are specific and specific and really affect people.”

Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez’s circumference is just one attempt to resolve this. He stops in the conservative -dominated areas and remains laser focused on the economy, citing the cost of life complaints that have brought Trump to a second term, while framing him and his supporters of the billionaire as Musk as culprits.

Ocasio-Cortez put the argument simply: “Oligarchy or democracy?”

But touring the combat oligarchy is just a theory of how the Democratic Party should develop.

“It’s perfectly normal when the party loses, especially the Presidency, to have this period of soul search and to ask,” What is next? “Said Professor Christian Gross, a political scientist at the University of Southern California.

Some Democrats have accused their party of falling out of step with more conservative Americans on topics such as transsexual rights or failing to adjust different perspectives on the party’s ideological spectrum. Without expanding their potential base, these Democrats claim that they have little chance of regaining power.

One such gambit by California governor Gavin News involves moving the party’s branding more to the center. Although Newsom has long since dumped the White House ambitions, it is a new generation of Democrats who could fight for the presidency in 2028.

Governor, known across the country as a liberal abortion defender and LGBTQ rights, has recently launched a podcast of They have conversations with politicians who disagree with him.

Newsom’s decision to interview the right strategist Steve Bannon angered many Democrats.

“I think it’s important to have difficult conversations or even have a civil conversation that may be difficult for people to listen to because everyone is there trying to break each other,” Newsom said at a recent press conference.

While such a debate about whether to moderate or play the main function of seeking the soul of every party, there is a new twist this year, Mr. Groz said.

“Some of the questions about the Democrats’ strategy is the question of age – is it time for a new generation? It’s a little unique,” he said.

David Hog, 25 -year, organizer of weapons safety and deputy chairman of the Democratic National Committee, is currently closed in a heated public debate with party senior statesmen, strategist James Carville.

Hog recently bet $ 20 million through his political group to finance primary democrats in safe places.

“We cannot win the majority unless we convince the American people that our party offers something that is not simple, not Donald Trump, but something essential,” he said. “I think it’s time for some new votes in our party.”

Carville, credited to shepherd Bill Clinton in the White House, called the Plan “crazy”.

“Don’t we have to run against the Republicans?” he asked CNN.

While party data traded with Barbs on television, the disgruntled Democrats gathered at Bakersfield they told the BBC that it doesn’t matter so much what the leaders do, as long as they do something – preferably something strong.

Lisa Richards, a 61-year-old voter, who has traveled 230 miles from San Diego, praised the recent 25-hour speech by New Jersey Senator Corey Booker on the US Senate Senior, opposing Trump’s policies.

This speech and rallies of Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez “show people in the country who interest them,” said Ms. Richards.