The 2018 mid-term US elections.

[Chad32]

any sign of a push starting at the grass roots level and on up of attracting good candidates, a commitment to conduct issue oriented, taut and efficient campaigns, and a realization that trotting out Dem spokespeople at the national level who enjoy polling positives under 20% (being VERY generous here, the number should be in the 60s) is STUPID ??

I think that the Democrats should run on a platform of defending the status quo, namely, health care.  After all, how much reform is there left to do in the US?  At some point progressive causes have to come to end, and when that happens, the Democrats will become the conservatives.

Isn't that what Hillary ran on, before she lost horribly. We still have a ways to go on progressive issues. Honestly, there's always room for improvement, so I doubt progressive causes will ever end, and yes the current establishment democrats are basically republicans at this point.