A Tonic for the Party

Gaining ground in rural America has become a difficult task for the Democratic Party. Major sparkplug Anderson Clayton shows us how to do it.

Part of the reason Democrats fail to get traction in rural America is failure to be loud and proud about what they stand for. Another is that many Democratic committees have all the institutional vigor of a mid-20th-century men’s fraternal organization. What’s needed is not just more younger activists, but more “legacy Democrats” willing to stand aside and let them take the reins.