The democratic leadership council cannot save the Democratic Party

What was clear to some of us for years was a recent common knowledge: the Democratic Party lost in the wilderness.

It is the most popular since Quinnipiac began to ask the question in 2008. The elections have witnessed to lose support between each group of voters except voters who have received education at the White College. Away from learning the lesson, the last DNC ​​meeting was a presentation of progressive cliché, from thanking the land to handwriting on pronouns. The party leaders doubled the priorities that voters have just rejected.

Now, the Democratic Centers who declared themselves claim that they have the solution: simply reviving the Democratic Leadership Council, the moderate movement that raised Bill Clinton and saved Democrats from mystery in the 1990s.

We both worked in DLC for more than a decade in the founder of AL, and took it from us: Reviving The DLC today is the dream of pipes.

For anyone, this is not the nineties. When DLC was formed, the left was the maximum margin. It had to be, certainly, but no one believed that Jesse Jackson dominated the party’s ideology.

Not so today. In the past decade, the radical progressors have taken the party’s castle while democratic elites have now welcomed change, as they will get power, popularity and money. For a while, he seemed to work. Now only these founding players want to do.

The anti -progressive leader is scheduled to fail before he starts. Two fast food from DLC reveals why.

The first, DLC appeared from outside the institution, from those who have the courage to bear great risks and the credibility of talking about the truth to power. No one in the democratic establishment has this courage or credibility today. If they did, they would have stood with the progressive when they had power.

The ideal moment was the debate about “Build Back Better” in 2021. These moderate democratic groups attacked members of their party who interrogated the remote left agenda around him, such as Sens. Joe Manchin (DW.VA.) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) And a group of nine members at home led by Representative Josh Gutimir (DN.J). These brave leaders built the two -party infrastructure bill without any support from their party, and in the end it became clear that their solution was the only way to move forward. Now the democratic establishment takes the credit for their work.

Second, DLC succeeded because it was invented to create a new policy. He did not overcome himself with a contract trying to win a progressive base. It built a new movement outside the party to attract the logical majority, regardless of partisan affiliation.

Today, as is the case, the majority majority is not the property of the left or right. The new policy will appear by combining Republicans, Democrats and independents who are still concerned with reasonable rule and problem solving.

This contradicts the Democrats who call for a new DLC, who only care about reforming their party. They have a satirical effort. The real courage is to say, “Forget the party, let’s build a new movement.” Remember: DLC has concluded its own agreement, separate from DNC. Democrats only claimed and owned it when he was clearly winning.

Our organization, no labels, based on this particular goal of innovation to create a new policy. We support leaders on both sides who deceive driving to work together in the middle. Our focus is on building a third party, but a third force. We also establish citizen support for such a policy, which is the constant success of our unity tickets effort – an effort that the democratic establishment attacked even though the elections have proven our true thesis.

The old proverb comes to mind: “Do not seek to follow the footsteps of the wise. Look for what they sought.”

DLC was built four decades ago. It was from a different era. There is no repetition now, no longer, especially under the leadership of the same elite who left progressive cancer consuming their party.

Our experience in DLC tells us that the road forward is to create a completely new policy that represents the era-that unites the Democrats, Republicans and independents in a new movement of America.

Nancy Jacobson is the co -founder and CEO of the Latime Company. Holly Page is the co -founder of No Labels.