Robert Reich's 8-Point Plan for a New Democratic Party

Former labor secretary says the party must be rebuilt from the ground up, and has some ideas on how it should be done.

'During the 2016 primary, former Labor Secretary Robert Reich was an outspoken supporter of Bernie Sanders. When he threw his weight behind Hillary Clinton's bid in the general election, he did so while also calling for the formation of a new progressive party to take up Sanders' cause after the election. In the wake of Democrats' humiliating defeat in November – not just for the presidency, but in a number of Congressional races – the UC Berkeley professor and co-founder of Inequality Media says the Democratic Party must be rebuilt from the ground up, and he has some ideas about how it ought to be done.

It won't be easy, he says. "We are facing something far worse than many people would like to admit. This is not a normal transition of power, and Donald Trump will not be a normal president," Reich told Rolling Stone one week after the election. "I think a lot of people are in denial about how bad this all is or could be or will be. A lot of people want to normalize this. It is not normal."
"This requires a completely different kind of politics in response, and the Democratic Party needs to think at a much, much larger and more ambitious level than a lot of the Democrats I've been talking to over the last week have been."

Here's Reich's blueprint for the future of the party.'>>>

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/robert-reichs-8-point-plan-for-a-new-democratic-party-w451713