The economic agenda put forth by the Democratic Party’s progressive flank has made its way from the margins to the mainstream.
From calls to lower health care costs and address rising rents to fully embracing organized labor and promising to crack down on price gouging, economic populism was on full display at last week’s Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
“There’s a movement among Democrats that we have to start looking at these kitchen table issues or we’re going to lose votes,” said Jennifer Flynn Walker, the co-chief of campaigns for the Center for Popular Democracy Action, an advocacy group that recently endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris.
