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This fiery evangelical pastor offers a blueprint for Democrats’ revival in Trump’s second term | CNN

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The Rev. William J. Barber II has long been one of America ’s most persistent and eloquent spokespersons for poor and working-class Americans .

Barber is the recipient of a MacArthur “genius grant” and helps lead the Poor People's Campaign .

He's shown Democrats how they can win political victories in red states with multiracial and multiclass coalition.

Critics say Democrats are elitist and look down on working-class people.

Neither party has done enough, and all of them dismiss poor and low-wage service people in different ways.

We have a deep moral problem in this country, she says, writing off a whole swath of people.

Blake: We’re in the birth pangs of what I call a Third Reconstruction.

We have to grab on to our foreparents. They didn’t have the luxury to go anywhere. They hurt, they grieved and then they got up and fought.

Blake: Don't try to have a left or right agenda. Have a moral agenda. Look at what issues are a violation of our deepest moral values. Lift from the bottom.

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