Is Power Shifting Away From the Democratic Establisment?...
I ran across an intresting article discussing the shifting power currents within the democratic party. The author highlights the power shift away from the Democratic party establisment to its grassroots to that which occurred in the Republican party following the election of President Obama. The article is insightful as well as well written. It certainly will give more progressive minded democrats (and even liberal independents) a reason to smile, AND, hopefully work that much harder to effect the needed changes in the democratic party that will ultimately result in flipping Congress in 2018 and defeating Trump in 2020. Article intro below. In 2010, enraged grassroots conservatives launched an insurgency against the Republican establishment. The Tea Party movement ran a series of primary challengers accusing Republicans of being insufficiently oppositional to President Obama. Their insurgency was wildly successful. Within four years, they had picked off a sitting se...