
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) (C) huddles with Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA), and Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) (L) before unveiling the Democratic party's "A Better Deal" for working Americans in Berryville, Virginia, U.S., July 24, 2017. REUTERS/James Lawler Duggan
What a battle over Virginia’s most powerful monopoly can teach Democrats everywhere
February 12, 2018
A few days into Virginia’s 2018 legislative session, a Democratic delegate named Sam Rasoul stood on the floor of the state House and gave a speech straight from the angry populist heart of his party’s new national platform. It wasn’t just a criticism of corporate monopoly, though it certainly was that. It was a jeremiad against the politics of monopoly, wherein politicians at all levels truckle to the very entities they have both the power and the popular support to regulate.