I appreciate all y'all's input and comments. The Democratic tent covers a lot of divergent groups, and like you can see in the comments on this board, has a lot of different advise coming from a wide variety of factions. Not the least of those are the 'high-roaders' vs the 'punch them in the face' groups. We definitely have our work cut out for us but I do like the "regular people" concept. Somewhere along the line the Dems got complacent and took for granted the working class and started trying to appease the smaller special interest sectors. I'm not so sure it's as much a case of people switching sides, but that a whole lot of folks started feeling unrepresented, and just quit voting. That's what Trump exploited.
We need to remind people what we had 40-50 years ago, the good progress this country was making, and convince them to come back and vote to begin the process of getting this out of the hands of the oligarchs and back to being a machine for the people. It's a hard task, and maybe even impossible, but I'm going to keep trying. And coming here and getting your input is valuable to keep me from isolating myself in a blue silo. All surly tongue in cheek self degradation aside, there's a pretty decent source of input here from a group of critical thinkers.
But it all comes back to oligarch vs common battle. Wash, rinse and repeat.