Whaddya do with a party that would rather lose elections than break with Wall Street and permanent war? That's my reading of Thomas Perez becoming head of the Democratic National Committee over the Bernie Sanders ally.
NYT, on how Perez became a candidate after Bernie Bro Keith Ellison became the front runner:
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Allies of Mr. Obama, Mrs. Clinton and other establishment-aligned Democrats soon began casting about for an alternative.
Thomas Perez is a former Secretary of Labor, hence the memory of the Sopranos episode where it is revealed that Tony is working with a union "militant" to threaten strikes and shake down contractors.
In the last presidential race, the Democratic Party used bureaucratic process to nominate the candidate who turns off voters -- Clinton -- rather than the one who fills stadiums. That's because the stadiums were filled by promising to go after the old guard's base -- Wall Street and war. Now they are intent on doing it again.
I recall that in 2012, the GOP swept Arkansas. But raising the state minimum wage won with 65% of the vote.
Fight an actual class war and the votes will come.