Opinion: Recognizing What’s Real

"A new movement is emerging that could bridge the gulf between mainstream Democrats - still dwelling too much in the rarified air of urban meritocracy - and the practical concerns of working folks and rural dwellers. If successful, this third way offers moderate voters an escape from Trump's self-aggrandizing, fake-populism while popping the air out of the Democrats' pie-in-the-sky agenda."

"... Representative Gluesenkamp Perez, along with Representative Jared Golden of Maine, another prominent Blue Dog, has started a podcast to identify their audience: "people who still believe in community, country and the common good." They propose an economic vision that is arguably more radical than the programs offered by many on the left. "It encompasses antimonopoly policies, right to repair, and regulatory changes to smooth the path for people to start businesses, buy and work land, even build their own houses and invent things.""