Rudderless. Woke. Disorganized. Out of touch. Leaderless.
This is how non-college educated voters described the Democratic Party in recent focus groups hosted by the Progressive Policy Institute (PPI), a Democratic think tank that researches center-left policy issues and bills itself as “radically pragmatic.”
The results from the focus groups were shared at PPI’s New Directions for Democrats Summit, which took place in Las Vegas on Sept. 12 and 13. The group will be hosting summits across swing states that are likely to be political battlegrounds in the 2026 and 2028 elections.
