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Article snippet: Democratic leaders in Congress are coming under criticism from liberals who fear the party is spending too much time battling MORE and not enough building an economic agenda. They worry that Democratic leaders are falling into the same trap as MORE in 2016, when her relentless attacks on Trump eclipsed her own plans for the country. Senate Democratic Leader MORE (Calif.) have unveiled a variety of ambitious proposals, such as raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour and creating a national system of paid family and sick leave. But the Democrats' “Better Deal” agenda has been overshadowed by regular battles with Trump over the Russia investigation, controversial nominees, immigration, guns, efforts to undermine ObamaCare and the president’s $1.5 trillion tax cut. “You can’t win just by saying how awful Trump is,” said Roger Hickey, co-director of Campaign for America’s Future, a liberal advocacy group. “We need a positive economic agenda and it’s got to be bigger and bolder than just the conventional nostrums of the past.” Some Democrats in Congress agree. Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-Ariz.), a co-chairman of the Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC), is warning his colleagues not to settle for an agenda that merely “sand[s] down the rough edges of the status quo” and goes soft on economic injustice “in the name of moving cautiously.” “[That] is not ‘liberalism,’” he wrote recently in a Washington Post op-ed. ” It’s conservatism that doesn’t want to admit what it is.” ... Link to the full article to read more