Did the Democratic Party go too woke? Is it not woke enough? Did Donald Trump win working-class voters because of the culture war or because Democrats lacked a strong enough economic message? Welcome to month two of the debate that will be resolved … well, maybe never … but has come to define the Democratic Party’s leadership fight.
Martin O’Malley’s pitch to be the next Democratic National Committee chair emphasizes diversity and inclusion as the way to strengthen a working-class coalition, per NOTUS’ Calen Razor, who got a first look at O’Malley’s proposal.
Among the others running, Minnesota state Party Chair Ken Martin called for a “massive narrative and branding project” to address why Democrats are losing working-class voters. And Wisconsin state Party Chair Ben Wikler’s opening statement was to a Democratic Party built by the working class, which “won breakthroughs on civil rights and women’s rights and workers’ rights.”