Democrats must strike a sharp blow against economic royalists and win back middle America

It’s way past time for Democrats to wake up and regain the allegiance of financially strapped middle Americans who deserted the party of their parents to become Reagan Republicans. Democrats can still win elections without them. But my party can’t win big without them and big wins are the only outcomes that bring big change. 

The lifestyles of the rich and famous have become infamous.  

The wealthy denizens of Jeffrey Epstein’s Caribbean island who sexually abused girls are now in disgrace. Rich men like Donald Trump, Jeffrey Epstein and Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly known as Prince Andrew, have combined to abdicate the moral high ground that the wealthy once enjoyed in the Age of Reagan. Greed and excess are not good.

Public resentment has grown towards the billionaires who sail the world on 400-foot gas guzzling yachts for pleasure cruises on the high seas while mothers and fathers at home struggle to fill their gas tanks for trips to grocery stores where they barely can afford the food.  

There’s no time like the present for Democrats to run a full tilt boogie populist economic campaign against the economic royalists who were the favorite foils for Franklin Roosevelt to win four presidential elections.  

A national survey conducted for The Economist in December by YouGov.com demonstrates the desire of the public to upend the economic apple cart. 

Four in five people feel the rich have too much power and a like number........

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