Nancy Pelosi ruled the Democrat Party for two decades.
But Pelosi’s position is more fragile than ever.
And Nancy Pelosi just got hit with one massive insult by the last person she ever suspected.
As Swamp Digest reports:
Even though Nancy Pelosi formally abdicated her role as head of the House Democrats a few years ago, she is still arguably the most powerful person in the party.
Her successor, Hakeem Jeffries, has yet to make a name for himself and is still a little-known figure among the American public despite his high-ranking position.
And Pelosi, who has kept her seat in Congress despite stepping down as head of the caucus, is viewed as more of a titan of Democratic politics than Sen. Chuck Schumer, the head of the Senate Democrats.
However, there are some key Democrats who would like to see Pelosi take a step back.
Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio, who was just defeated in his re-election campaign, has some advice for the Democratic Party that they might want to heed.
He says they need to stop viewing Pelosi as the leader of their party and move on to some new and different people.
Here is what Sen. Brown said in a PBS interview: “I don’t know about Nancy still has a lot of — she has power because she’s a great intellect and has an incredible record of public service. I mean, she’s not the Democratic leader.
“The top three leaders, one from Massachusetts, one from New York, one from California, that may be a problem. I like all three of them. But the problem, in part, is we are seen in places like Ohio and Western PA and Michigan and Wisconsin as probably too much of a bicoastal party.”
Brown is saying that with Pelosi being from the Bay Area, Jeffries and Schumer being from New York, and House Minority Whip Katherine Clark being from Massachusetts, the Democrats aren’t representing Middle America.
Brown, who represented Ohio, sees how badly that needs to change after his own defeat in the general election.
Elsewhere in the interview, he said: “But it’s been a slow migration away from the Democratic Party and American workers starting with NAFTA. And since then, Democrats don’t talk enough about workers, don’t put workers at the center of what we should be doing. And my career has been working to do that.”
Brown is a liberal, as he makes clear in the interview, and he holds a lot of the social views that make Democrats toxic with the working class.
But he is at least beginning to see the problems that have led to the working class becoming a Republican voting bloc.
Now if he could only see how much of a non-starter things like LGBT ideology or radical feminism are among working-class people, he could perhaps have a better idea of why the party is losing.
Unfortunately, this is a very hard thing for Democrats to see as they are very tied to these ideologies, and Nancy Pelosi is probably not the person to fix that.
