<p>Former Rep. Tim Ryan (D-OH) is making the case for how and why the Democratic Party should undergo a &#8220;complete reboot&#8221; after its candidates got clobbered nationally in the 2024 election.</p>
<p>Democrats are conducting election postmortems after losing the White House to President-elect Donald Trump and the Senate to Republicans. They also failed to win back the House.</p>
<p>In an interview on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xU-ZMK5nXRM" target="_blank" rel="noopener">MSNBC&#8217;s &#8220;The Weekend,&#8221;</a> Ryan was asked what House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) or future chair of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) should do going forward.</p>
<p>&#8220;You start with a complete reset,&#8221; Ryan said. &#8220;I mean, we need a rebrand. I think you and I have been talking about this since 2016, like, our brand is toxic in so many places and it is like, you are a Democrat?&#8221;</p>
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<p>He added: &#8220;That’s the stuff we get like in Ohio. And so it needs — we need a complete reboot. We need a complete reboot with the DNC. We need a complete rebranding.&#8221;</p>
<p>Ryan, who lost to Trump&#8217;s vice presidential pick, J.D. Vance, in the 2022 U.S. Senate race in Ohio, argued that members of his party need to reassess what it means to be a Democrat.</p>
<p>&#8220;People want to trust us. They don’t want to go to Donald Trump. I’m telling you, the middle-of-the-road people, they’re holding their nose to vote for him,&#8221; Ryan said.</p>
<p>Ryan offered a number of suggestions for how the Democrats can recalibrate, such as embracing natural gas as an alternative to coal and backing off a &#8220;big fight&#8221; with the crypto industry.</p>
<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve got to get back to the bread and butter policies,&#8221; Ryan said, adding that the Democratic Party should focus on wooing back working-class and other voters as well as offering a vision for the future.</p>
<p>He further suggested that Democrats need to &#8220;lead&#8221; on the economy and say &#8220;no&#8221; to some of the &#8220;issues&#8221; — even if members can be allies to those causes.</p>
<p>&#8220;The other thing that I think is really big: We can’t be for solely redistribution,&#8221; Ryan said, adding later, &#8220;We want people to aspire to make money in America. &#8230; It&#8217;s about growing the pie.&#8221;</p>
<p>Ryan posited his party should look back to the &#8220;Bill Clinton campaign,&#8221; put together a plan geared toward &#8220;reinventing&#8221; a &#8220;broken&#8221; government, and offer &#8220;more of a class-based upward mobility system.&#8221;</p>

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