Show, Don’t Tell

Democrats need to show, not tell that they are fighting for working people. Create a home for them. Abughazaleh spared no criticism of her party. “We’re doing the same things over and over again and expecting different results, and that’s just not going to happen,” she told her hosts. “We have to do something different, and I think that should start with helping people.” Some in her own party stand in the way of unity, she believes. Democrats have to be unified in their goal of fighting for the working class, a party of the New Deal and the Civil Rights Act. I see the same. Democrats are reactive, not proactive. They don’t think outside the box. They built the box. It’s what prompted an exasperated Giridharadas a year ago to declare, “I feel so fucking undefended by these people. Like what are they doing, any of them?” Riffing on that last year, I wrote: I watched most of the DNC’s 12-1/2 hour winter meeting days earlier. Most of the speeches were dispiriting. They could have been written 30 years ago. Members said what they what they were expected to