Party leaders must learn from the GOP and listen to their base, which skews as progressive as the Republicansâ does reactionary. Senate Democrats on Monday voted overwhelmingly to end the government shutdown without protections for the DREAMERs - who were protected from deportation and allowed to legally work by the Obama-era DACA policy eliminated by President Trump in 2017. For the Democratic Partyâs progressive base, their capitulation was a disappointing end to a moment in which it seemed like the party might finally take a real stand against abhorrent Republican policies. The DREAMERs were meant to be an unassailable group...