The people are angry with "Congress." But it is only the Republicans in Congress that are refusing to do the people's business. Show people where the real problem is, and harness their justifiable anger to propel your candidacy, and the candidacies of Democrats seeking to take the Republicans' seats from them.
You have every political incentive to go after the Republicans to drain their support away. You have every political incentive to demonstrate to Democratic primary voters that you are a leader who can defeat this "outlier" of a political party that's operated like a wrecking ball on our political system.
Can we at last have a Democratic leader who has a real appetite for the battle that so urgently needs to be fought?*
Footnote: We Democrats do have one important leader who has taken on the Republicans in an loquent, powerful, and appropriate way. That's Senator Elizabeth Warren.
In March, Senator Warren excoriated the Republican behavior in refusing to do their constitutional duties to fill the vacancy on the Supreme Court, and connected this disgraceful conduct with their other illegitimate forms of political conduct and with the ugly extremism on display in the Republican presidential contest.
This past week she demolished Ted Cruz after Senator Cruz sent out a smarmy message about all the sacrifices he is making to run for president. And her demolition was framed in a way that highlighted all the right-wing policy positions through which Cruz (and other Republicans) sacrifice other Americans who are struggling to make their lives work.
What Elizabeth Warren is doing is what we need for the Democratic standard-bearer to be doing -- using the truth about this grotesque Republican Party to discredit it in the eyes of everyone not too far gone into a right-wing-induced trance to see it.
We can't have Elizabeth Warren at the top of the ticket this time around. But it sure would be good to have Hillary and Bernie show us how well they can do what she's doing, and perhaps to put Senator Warren on the ticket in July in the number two spot.
(Note: You can view every article as one long page if you sign up as an Advocate Member, or higher).
