Much of the Democratic Party is in the thrall of a class of political consultants who have failed up and gotten rich doing so.
Much of the Democratic Party is in the thrall of a class of political consultants who have failed up and gotten rich doing so. In my twenty-plus years in and around the Democratic Party, there has been shocking little turnover in which consulting firms do the bulk of the work for the party and its top politicians. This is, in part, why we keep making the same mistakes over and over again. It is the financial interest of the consultants to adhere to the way things have been done, as opposed to the way things should be done. A modern, more effective and progressive Democratic Party depends on ending the consultant culture that dominates the party.
