Democratic strategist calls for ‘new generation of leaders’ as party plots response to Trump’s victory

Strategist who aided resurgence after Reagan urges focus on fundamentals' - but cautions against leftward drift

Republicans jubilant after winning the White House with a candidate who promised to make America great again". Democrats lost in the political wilderness, apparently out of touch with working people. America, apparently, shifting inexorably to the right. Not 2024 but 1984, when Ronald Reagan won the presidency in a landslide.

Al From remembers it well. The political strategist responded by launching the Democratic Leadership Council (DLC) with a mission to rebuild the party and make it electable again. He succeeded in 1992 when Bill Clinton led the New Democrats" back into power - and four decades on he has advice for how the party can rise from the ashes of another election defeat.