In America the Democrats are in crisis — leaderless, divided, and drifting after Donald Trump’s return to power, and on the left, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC), Bernie Sanders and the Democrat’s New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani are seizing the moment, but is their radicalism the way to beat Trump’s Maga bandwagon?
Or will they end up alienating the majority of working class America?
Tim Ryan, a senior advisor for the Progressive Policy Institute, is the former Ohio Congressman who stood for the senate but lost to JD Vance.
He also threw his hat in the ring for the Democrats Presidential nomination when Joe Biden won it.
He wants to haul his party back to focus on what he sees as the central concerns of working class voters – their cost of living and the fairness of the system, as well as working with business not against it – what he sometimes calls more of a Bill Clinton style. But is that really the answer to a Democrat resurrection?