When Members of Congress get elected and go to Washington, D.C., their world is like being in a blender with the lid off. That chaos makes it even more difficult to stay connected to real people on the ground in real America.
That's why we, as voters and party activists, must let them know that we are paying attention. Every now and then, we need to send them a wake-up call. We are paying attention to what they do, and what they don't do.
Elected Democrats have shown recently (and in the eight years of the Obama administration) that they’re willing to simply ignore their supporters. Yes, their base may be on board with the agenda but, as the last election proved, there are saner Democrats out there who have grown tired of their party’s drift into radical left-wing policy. Democrats also ignore logic and common sense and, even when they are dead wrong, they stick together, such as their collective reaction to pulling out of the Paris Climate Agreement.