Democrats are doubling down on the same vanilla centrism that helped give us President Trump – LA Times

Democrats are doubling down on the same vanilla centrism that helped give us President Trump

Last Friday evening, a diverse crowd gathered in an airless Los Angeles church for a Democratic National Committee “Resistance Summer” rally. The plan was simple: to invigorate the base with speeches, then run a phone bank to oppose the Republican healthcare bill. Instead, Democratic Party officials quickly lost control of the event.