Should Democrats be left-wing economic populists?

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Should Democrats be left-wing economic populists?

During the 2024 election, a critique of the Harris campaign and the Democratic Party began to form. When the party was swept from power, that critique exploded across the post-election discourse.The Democrats lost the election because they weren’t sufficiently economically left-wing. Proponents of this thought argued that Harris doomed the Democratic Party by campaigning with icons of big business, failing to articulate a bracing critique of cor…