{"id":520,"date":"2026-10-13T18:05:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T18:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaborinstitute.org\/?p=520"},"modified":"2026-11-09T18:30:55","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T18:30:55","slug":"will-the-dems-blow-this-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelaborinstitute.org\/?p=520","title":{"rendered":"Will the Dems Blow This Election?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s not possible. Or is it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And if the do win, Les Leopold writes, they better make some changes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;It will take more than new slogans, better focus groups, or even new working-class candidates. It will require replacing the entire ecosystem of\u00a0<em>generationally wealthy<\/em> operatives who shape the party\u2019s priorities to reflect their own interests rather than the interests of working people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lesleopold.substack.com\/p\/will-the-democrats-blow-this-election?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&amp;utm_medium=web\">Click here to read the whole story.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not possible. Or is it? And if the do win, Les Leopold writes, they better make some changes: &#8220;It will take more than new slogans, better focus groups, or even new working-class candidates. It will require replacing the entire ecosystem of\u00a0generationally wealthy operatives who shape the party\u2019s priorities to reflect their own interests rather &#8230; <a title=\"Will the Dems Blow This Election?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/thelaborinstitute.org\/?p=520\" aria-label=\"Read more about Will the Dems Blow This Election?\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":521,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,16,12],"tags":[20,21,17,22,19,18],"class_list":["post-520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-billionaires-have-two-parties","category-les-leopold","category-we-need-a-party-of-our-own","tag-blunami","tag-chuck-schumer","tag-democrats","tag-michael-bennet","tag-richard-nixon","tag-trumpgates","post_format-post-format-link"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelaborinstitute.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelaborinstitute.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelaborinstitute.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelaborinstitute.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelaborinstitute.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thelaborinstitute.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":522,"href":"https:\/\/thelaborinstitute.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520\/revisions\/522"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelaborinstitute.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelaborinstitute.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelaborinstitute.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelaborinstitute.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}