CLEVELAND — Fresh off a comfortable re-election victory in 2018, Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, considered running for president on a populist message aimed at the many working-class Midwest voters who had fled the Democratic Party in favor of Donald Trump.
He spoke of a “post-Senate mission” to reorient Democrats as the “party of workers” in Middle America.
“But I lost in large part because the national reputation of the Democratic Party is that we are sort of a lighter version of a corporation — a corporate party.
And that’s one of the reasons that working-class voters have been willing to look away from the Democratic Party.
Brown talks of NAFTA like it’s an original sin for his party — the moment Democrats began losing the working class.
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