For some Alabama Democrats, the party’s over Second Front


From Weld
For some Alabama Democrats, the party’s over:


Democrats could have done more, Re. Patricia Todd said. Make a list of issues Alabama progressives ostensibly care about — repealing sales taxes on groceries and prescription drugs, reforming the tax code to make it less regressive, rewriting the state constitution, providing greater transparency. Do that, and you’ll have a list of Democratic Party failures of the last several decades.
“You cannot out-Republican the Republicans,” Todd said in an interview last week. “We don’t have a message in this party in this state. We talk about middle class and jobs, but what have we done in the 136 years that we have been in power?”

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