Tag: progressives

“Senate Republicans are using the coronavirus crisis as a cynical cover to attack our Social Security system.”

A successful progressive campaign needs to have the right message and agenda and the right relationship between a candidate with vision and credibility and longer-term progressive infrastructure.

But with the coronavirus plague sweeping the country, Biden and Bernie should take the time to negotiate a coalition platform and even write the new laws on which they can both agree.

There is a path forward for progressives even if Biden wins the nomination, but if Sanders wins, progressives need to show the rest of the country that he’s not a scary boogeyman, and he really can represent all Americans.

Let’s all band together and throw out Trump, the neoliberals, and those who want ever more wealth for the already wealthy.

From the grassroots, as 2020 gets underway, the solution should be clear: All left hands on deck.

The need for a Sanders-Warren united front should be clear -- as clear as the imperative of rolling back the monstrous right-wing power that has controlled the presidency during the last three years.

Footage of Mayor Peter praising the Tea Party at a 2010 conference and calling for more bipartisanship is not a good look for the millions of Americans hoping to chart a more progressive course post 2020.

Those of us who were there at the 2008 election – and who worked hard for Obama to win – remember Hope and Change.

In reality, what’s going to beat Trump are new ideas that mobilize America, that let Americans see what the wealthy and powerful who bankroll Trump have done to this nation.