{"id":23208,"date":"2019-02-18T23:00:50","date_gmt":"2019-02-18T23:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=500de5cb94924ff6987dbb4aa2cad02a"},"modified":"2019-02-18T23:00:50","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T23:00:50","slug":"how-democrats-are-blocking-progressives-and-what-to-do-about-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2019\/02\/18\/how-democrats-are-blocking-progressives-and-what-to-do-about-it\/","title":{"rendered":"How Democrats Are Blocking Progressives And What To Do About It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Progressives have been trying to make the Democratic Party move to the left and adopt their agenda since Senator Bernie Sanders started running for president in 2015. Like the many who have tried before them, they have failed. We speak with Nick Brana, the former national political outreach director for the Sanders campaign and a co-founder of Our Revolution who was on the inside of that effort, about what happened when they tried, where the party is now and what he sees as a path forward to build political power on the left.<\/p> <p>Subscribe to Clearing the FOG on Patreon and receive our bonus show, Thinking it Through, plus Clearing the FOG totes, water bottles and T shirts. Visit\u00a0<a class=\"vglnk\" href=\"http:\/\/patreon.com\/ClearingtheFOG\" rel= \"nofollow\">Patreon.com\/ClearingtheFOG<\/a>.<\/p> <p>And visit the new Popular Resistance Podcast Network at\u00a0<a class=\"vglnk\" href=\"http:\/\/www.popularresistance.org\/prpn\/\" rel= \"nofollow\">www.PopularResistance.org\/prpn\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/clearingthefogradioshow.libsyn.com\/how-democrats-are-blocking-progressives-and-what-to-do-about-it\">Clearing the FOG with co-hosts Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Progressives have been trying to make the Democratic Party move to the left and adopt their agenda since Senator Bernie Sanders started running for president in 2015. Like the many who have tried before them, they have failed. We speak with Nick Brana,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23208"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23209,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23208\/revisions\/23209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}