This is just weird.

If the only goal is to win elections, why not just become Republicans? They're winning right now, you can win too!

A more defensible and patriotic approach would be to offer a better alternative to Republican governance. Now define "better" and draw lines between that definition and specific Democratic programs -- creating or changing the programs as necessary. There's room in there to suppress programs you think would achieve "better" but are unpopular enough to prevent you from getting elected, but there's no room to tout programs (cheerleading for Hamas comes to mind) that make things worse just to pick some votes up.

So what has the author come up with? Taxing corporations? One would expect an explanation of what that tax money would be used for, right? I mean, unless it's just meant to be punitive, in which case one would expect an explanation of what, exactly, is being punished.

And it's impossible to take the idea seriously if the author doesn't even nod to the fact that corporate earnings are already taxed when they're passed on to the shareholders. One should also wonder, if the corporations are set aside, what "the economy" is that they're looting?

I'd like to think that Democrats can come up with guiding principles that not only enable them to win but make them deserve to win. I'm not seeing that so far.