A Progressive and Populist Democratic Party

Via David Sirota, I like what Senator-elect Sherrod Brown told Mother Jones magazine about Democratic presidential hopefuls:

The Democrats need to nominate somebody that will be an economic populist, that will stand up for the middle class, that doesn’t just want to increase the minimum wage but somebody that will work to put the government on the side of working families. And that means different trade policy, standing up to the drug industry, taking on the oil industry. It means showing that the Democratic Party is a progressive, populist party. ”