Posted on 05/17/2026 5:04:59 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Government-made prescription drugs. $20,000 for first-time home buyers. Capped child care costs.
These are among the proposals that a cohort of left-leaning congressional Democrats argue will help their party win back working-class voters in the midterm elections and set the stage for success in the 2028 presidential election.
The suite of affordability proposals from the Congressional Progressive Caucus is the group’s opening bid in a debate within the party over what Democrats should offer voters frustrated with the current economic picture.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-New York) has directed the chamber’s Democratic policy committee to host listening sessions with members, with voters and with advocacy groups to inform a party-wide agenda expected to be released this summer.
The progressive wing’s plan is competing with proposals from moderate Democrats who are prioritizing efforts aimed at reducing regulatory barriers and increasing competition in health care, agriculture, housing and energy.
The progressives also contend that campaigning on reversing President Donald Trump’s policies, including tariffs and Medicaid cuts, will not be enough to win voters.
“The Democratic Party needs to show that we’re not just anti-Trump, but that we also have an actual pro-working-class agenda,” said Rep. Greg Casar (D-Texas), chair of the Progressive Caucus.
The longtime Democratic strategy to appeal to moderate Republicans and independents in suburbs alienated the working class and branded Democrats as “the party of the status quo,” Casar said. He argued that the party should now be targeting big corporations and billionaires “that are making your life worse.”
“That’s really important,” he said. “We are willing to name villains.”
Democrats’ soul-searching began immediately after the 2024 election, when Trump swept all seven battleground states, and Democrats failed to retake the House and keep the Senate...
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"We hate you. Vote for us."
Perfect. Don’t change a thing!
Lying about what you you will do just to get in office can only carry you so far, eventually people will discover you are lying.
“Kill all the white people, but vote for us first.”
The reason they have been able to make the same promises to black people every election for decades is because they never keep any of them.
Free box wine. Works every time it’s tried.
Very similar to their approach to getting men to vote for them.
Democrats are done. People are better connected now with social media and can get away from MSM propaganda. People now know when the government tries to help there is always a string attached.
Democrats lost and will not ever be a force again.
Hell of a strategy, eh?
We’ll pretend not to hate you. Vote for us!
They’ve been “done” for probably 25 years now. They have Election Fraud to take up the slack. If you hadn’t noticed.
Crazies run the Democrat Party today.
The Dhimmicrat answer is always “give them free stuff.”
Their slogan should be :”Dimocrats, creating dependency since 1828”.
They want working class VOTES, but DESERVING them is off the table.
They'll settle for harvested/trafficked ballots.
Democrats don’t want working class voters (if there’s such a thing as this phantom marxist category called”class”). If they did, they’d support cops.
Nothing says “Working Class” like having a bunch of rich Hollywood stars representing you.
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