Interview with MPP Coordinator Nick Brana

... on why the Democratic Party cannot be reformed.

'Nick Brana: Progressives are making a genuine effort inside the Democratic Party, as they have for many decades, in an attempt to take over and remake that party. But these efforts are following the same trajectory that they have in the past. For more than 100 years, the Democratic Party has refined a model to suppress progressives and block their efforts to take over the party. It goes like this: You block their efforts in the primaries, and then, for the scattered few who make it through, the party machine goes to work to reel them further and further into the establishment, which in turn will de-radicalize them.'

Brana was national political outreach coordinator for the Sanders campaign, and is now coordinator of the Movement for a People's Party.