Hartmann: Take back Freedom

He said: 

"It’s time for the Democratic Party to begin messaging like FDR did. [...] There was a time when Democrats called their party 'the Party of Freedom.' After all, if they were the party of freedom then how could they possibly sell out to the 'economic royalists' who were making common cause with the GOP? [...]  In the name of triangulation, political strategy, and big-tent-ism the modern Democratic Party has seen itself repeatedly sabotaged from within.

"You’re either a progressive party, FDR said, or you’re not: you can’t be both, and when you try to straddle that fence you will lose elections more often than not. [...] If the Democratic Party is to once again be the party of freedom, its leadership must take a stand like FDR did in 1940 when he defied the power-brokers and wealth-toadies in his own party."