General Discussion

I am certain every thing Ariella Elm refers to here is true. Velshi does sound like he is bashing Dems, and he does fail to mention all the things that the Dems are doing. Elm is right about that, too. So we don't care what Velshi says.

However, nobody in meaningful numbers hears about all the things Dems are really doing.

By "fighting", every day the Democratic leadership must be telling people what they are doing. What they are doing is enough to say they are fighting, but they do not say so. They do not corral the media, demand coverage, speak in aggressive or even assertive terms, using the substance of what they are doing as the proof that what they say is true.

That's all that's necessary today and for the moderate future to get this issue off their backs. We know they don't like nazis.

Velshi is talking shallow. What he says is what many people feel, a large number of people but he says nothing to change that feeling, because the feeling is based on impressions, not reality. So Velshi is worthless against the nazis.

The Democratic leadership needs to act like politicians. To a democracy, the politician is a member of a necessary professional class, and that professionalism includes telling people what they are doing on behalf of the people. The Democratic leadership is not doing that, so, in fact, they are not doing their jobs.