Is Labor Still a Movement? Are Dems Still a Party?

Three years ago I wrote in one of my initial Chief columns that “…there are only two political institutions that have even the remotest chance of serving as the vehicles to get our democracy back on the path to personal economic security and transparent, functional government that serves the interest of working people instead of the wealthy elite. Those two institutions are the labor movement and the Democratic Party.”

So here we are three years later and three years into the existential national political nightmare known as Donald Trump, facing the most critical national election since 1932, and these institutions’ political directions are a muddle.