Social scientists are currently telling us that no progressive majority exists among American voters. It's just not there. So what should progressives do?
Among Democratic voters the progressive v. centrist split is about 50-50.
The Democratic Party is a collection of groups. Some of them are Black Americans, Latinos, Asian-Americans, Amerindians, Moslems and so on. Not one of these named groups supports a full set of progressive values. They support the Democrats for other reasons.
People vote for Democrats when the party offers them concrete improvements to their lives. That's how FDR did it. That's how Andrew Jackson did it. But even that doesn't always work. Statisticians tell us that majority of Americans today do not trust any government or even their own neighbors.
The Democrats had better produce some needed changes. To do that they first will have to retrench the filibuster. Or fail. It's a choice.
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