Education News: The social legitimacy of the informal power structure in rural areas, based on field findings, highlights the coexistence of formal and informal power
raise money like belt o rourke texas. like mcauliffe who s from virginia and warren who s from massachusetts. joe briden s good at grass roots politics. as you start to see the coverage, some really big crowds in some of these states. we re hearing that sanders has put his announcement video together. somebody who had a lot of trouble with the african-american community. what about the folks still to get in like sanders? i wouldn t wait. i d be wanting to get right in.
during 2016 so that your supporters might have felt more welcome and a moreermented part of the party? we re going forward and not back. in my campaign we have to take on everything. we took on the entire corporate establishment, the entire corporate ring of the democratic party. and i think the lesson of that, van, i would hope is that the future of the democratic party has to be with grass roots politics, has to be with working people, has to be with young people and not just wealthy campaign contributors. and by the way, i think that lesson is perkulating right now. you re seeing many people coming forward and saying we re not going to take any corporate tax. one thing i would love to get your sense about is going forward i m not going to ask anything about 2020 and your plans, but it does seem like it s becoming more about a
blowout three straight cycles. it may be coming home to roost and there is no barack obama or any popular democrat at the top. a majority for the republicans could be within reach, but what are the politics of 2018 going to look like? it s never too early to start the presidential campaign cycle. the first time without hillary clinton looming large. here s an example of who we could see booking trips to iowa in the near future. warren and sanders and brown and cory booker and kamala harris. al frank in, tim kaine, one of the castro brothers. let s bring back the all-star panel. obviously, robert, you look at the mid-term and you have to look at the party out of power.
at politics. if you think about it, i can think of two people. one is mitch connell who came in and had a strategy of holding the talk us together and giving barack obama nothing. the base of a party if you are a party, if you really want to be a political party and not a compromise entity, your base needs to see you fighting. now that they had unified government, the smart move would be to follow the successful strategy. let republicans own it and on the infrastructure, it is basically tax cuts for rich developers. they don t know that yet. i hear you. protect medicaid and social security. to defend their base. that s one. the second is harry reid. he gave a lot of advice to the clinton campaign that they didn t take. they wish they would have now. she was trailing hillary clinton in nevada and got in. the smart strategists will hold