NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio Explains Why Democrats’ Only Hope In 2016 Is Tackling Inequality

Miles Kampf-Lassin

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio tells Chris Hayes on MSNBC’s All In that the lesson from Democrats’ massive losses in the 2014 midterms is that running from progressive economic principles makes voters stay home.

Miles Kampf-Lassin is Senior Editor at In These Times. Follow him at @MilesKLassin

The text is from the poem “QUADRENNIAL” by Golden, reprinted with permission. It was first published in the Poetry Project. Inside front cover photo by Golden.
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