Can moderate Democrats, plotting their path back to power, convincingly make a populist pivot?Progressives have plenty of bad ideas that should be axed, but populism without an economic promise is a bloodless bleat.It wasn’t long ago that Democratic party moderates expressed ambivalence toward the working class. In 2016, Chuck Schumer summed up the party’s attitude by predicting that “for every blue-collar Democrat we lose in western Pennsylvania, we will pick up two moderate Republicans in the suburbs of Philadelphia”.Dustin Guastella is a research associate at the Center for Working Class Politics and the director of operations for Teamsters Local 623. Continue reading... ...read more read less