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Stubborn older guys who are staying, but who haven't articulated a strategy for fighting Repubs and who are using old strategies, old energy, old perspectives and are seeing the same, failing results.

If we're going to challenge the authoritarian, we need the (much) older "steadier" generation to make way for next generation of fighters. We need new strategies, a new mission, new techniques, new energy, new communication concepts and new perspectives that will appeal to the hoard of people (mostly younger) who didn't vote in the last election. I've heard from 20-somethings (friends of my early 20's sons) that they want to see revolutionary actions from Dems, not soft-spoken, fact-based counterpoints on the Sunday morning news shows.

There's a lot to like about Schumer. But, he's not bringing new energy to the party or new voters into the tent.

The days of slow and steady are over. The days of relying on institutional norms are over. The Republicans have abandoned them, and so must we.