The polls I read stated that 67% of Americans felt the Democratic Party was out of touch w/the American people and 62% said the same of the GOP.  I would suggest that many life-long Democrats such as myself indeed feel the DNC, the leadership of the Democratic Party, is out of touch with Americans....including tens of millions of "rank and file" Democrats.  The DNC, of course, annointed Hillary Clinton as the Democratic Party candidate and used every tactic available to deny Bernie Sanders the nomination.  They were "successful" if you consider nominating arguably the only Democrat in the country who was capable of losing to Donald Trump constitutes "success." 

  The Democratic Party must "remake" itself if it's to regain the support of those of us who resent those elitist tactics which were instrumental in bringing us Donald Trump as President.  That includes a return to the Populist roots of the Party. Gary Crum