Democrats Will Need to Step on Toes to Rebuild: Frank Barry

Fear is rising among Democrats that they are “missing their moment to remake the party,” as a recent New York Times headline put it. Despite hemorrhaging voters across nearly all demographic groups in November, there has yet to be any major course correction. But that’s not the worst of it. The real problem for Democrats is that the changes under consideration won’t amount to much.

The three leading Democratic factions — liberals, centrists and members of both groups who we’ll call institutionalists — are all trying to treat the symptoms of the disease afflicting the party, rather than the disease itself. ...