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Huey » 07 Jan 2018 6:44 pm » wrote:
The speech before the National Press Club was designed to begin a healing process for the party after their stark losses in the 2014 election cycle. The Democratic Party must, Schumer argued, put forth legislation that improves the lives of large swaths of the middle class and, perhaps most importantly, can be sold as a clearly knit-together package that will make sense to the average voter.

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Democrats must embrace government, not run away from it," Schumer intoned, warning members against reacting too strongly to their loses in 2014. The leader said he worries that members will "run away from government, downplay it, or act as if we are embarrassed by its role" in response to those losses, turning the party into a sort of GOP-lite. "Together, Democrats must embrace government. It's what we believe in; it's what unites our party; and, most importantly, it's the only thing that's going to get the middle class going again," he said.

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