Populist Reform of the Democratic Party

Realistically, whatever anyone is trying to do better be President/Senate centric for the next 7 or 8 years at least.

This means most serious legislation talk is hot air. The game to move the ball forward is in oversight, appointments, enforcement, defense (or not) of challenged statutes, forwarding prosecution (or not), foreign policy, use of the UN, military/security/clandestine services, implementation.

Operational stuff is what we can reasonable expect to have any real opportunity to influence so that is where the focus must be not in new programs and initiatives because you can't do those kind of things with a House dominated by wackos backed by a whole slew of corporate owned crooks.

Sure, overarching ideas have to be put out along with straight talk on why they cannot be executed but actually accomplishing anything is not seed in fertile ground in this direction.