‘If the past two years have taught us anything, it’s that the Republican Party in Congress today is a toxic mix of white nationalism and corporate greed.’
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In the elections on Tuesday, Democrats won the House vote by about 6 percentage points, that’s nearly 6 million votes. That’s a big deal!

But the Democratic Party leadership — Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer —immediately put out statements saying they were ready to work with Republicans, compromise and and pursue “a bipartisan marketplace of ideas.”

Talk about serious buzzkill.

Very chill for the Democrats to pursue free college for anyone who helps build Trump’s border wall? No thanks.

If the past two years have taught us anything it’s that the Republican Party in Congress today is a toxic mix of white nationalism and corporate greed led by people who will lie, cheat, and steal in order to hoard more wealth, more power for themselves and their billionaire donors.

Democrats shouldn’t trust them!

Collaboration and compromise with Republicans shouldn’t be the Democrats goal — the goal should be to defeat the party of caravans, Kavanaugh, and the Koch Brothers in order to finally deliver for the American people, the majority of whom agree with each other on many policy areas.

Democrats need to use their power in Congress to hold Trump accountable, fight the Republican agenda of hate and corporate greed, and build a movement that brings people together around a bold vision to transform an America: Medicare For All, free college, dismantling mass incarceration and mass deportation, and a WW2-scale green jobs program to tackle climate change by transitioning off fossil fuels.

But there’s hope. The Democratic Party base gets it because the Democratic Party’s voters look a lot more like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez than Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi.

Look at the leadership of the Democratic Party — look at the top. And then look at the base, look at the bottom. The people at the top of the Democratic Party are disproportionately white, wealthy, and male while the people who vote Democrat are largely working class, young, brown, black, and female.

It’s why the Democratic establishment is so out of touch. It’s our time to lead.

Democrats should follow the lead of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez who says it best: in this moment there’s nothing radical about moral clarity.

Many of the people at the bottom of the Democratic Party have been told to wait our turn, that the leaders who got us into this mess are the ones to lead us out of it, that we don’t know enough or have enough money to lead our communities, or our party, or our country.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez began to change that dynamic when she unseated a 10-term Democratic incumbent backed by Wall Street and a political machine.

Leaders like Ocasio-Cortez and Rashida Tlaib and Ayanna Pressley and Ilhan Omar will be moral anchors, a moral caucus for the Democratic Party because in chaotic times, it’s the people with a clear vision who often wield the most amount of influence and power — especially when so many old guard Democrats have stale ideas and follow more than they lead.

Democrats need to fight for the big solutions their voters want to solve our country’s biggest crises. And if they don’t: there might be an Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez working at a restaurant who thinks the Democrat representing her in Congress just isn’t fighting hard enough

And the movement that helped Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez pull off one of the biggest upsets in American history — Justice Democrats, the Democratic Socialists of America, a multiracial coalition of millennials — we’re going to be here to usher in the next generation of Alexandrias and Ayannas and Rashidas because they exist in every district in America and when over half of Congress — Democrats and Republicans — is made up of millionaires, you know it’s time for a change.

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