Guardian.UK/Reich: The Democratic party lost its soul. It's time to win it back. November 18, 2016 by Garret Vreeland in Human Rights, History, Politics So what we now have is a Democratic party that has been repudiated at the polls, headed by a Democratic National Committee that has become irrelevant at best, run part-time by a series of insider politicians. It has no deep or broad-based grass-roots, no capacity for mobilizing vast numbers of people to take any action other than donate money, no visibility between elections, no ongoing activism. This.