Economic Populism is the Democratic Party of the Future

The message of economic populism helped Democratic candidates earn victories in the 2006 election. One of those candidates that pulled off an upset was James Webb who won his Senate race in Virginia.

David Sirota writes about this quote from Webb in today's Washington Post...

“He criticized what he called ‘the Rubin wing of the Democratic Party,’ after Robert E. Rubin, former President Bill Clinton’s Treasury secretary, saying those Democrats share the same problem as many Republicans: ‘We’re not paying attention to what has happened to basic working people in the country.’ He said of the freshman Senate Democrats, six of them take a ‘populist’ view, and said they are bringing needed reinforcements to the Senate: ‘We’ve got a number of us that pretty well see the economic issues the same way. I think that’s the Democratic Party of the future.’”