Democrat strategist David Axelrod worries that the Democrat party is perceived as elitist, and he blames Democrats' championing globalism: Ax: "Democrat party has become too much seen by too many Americans as the party of Elites and institutions that have failed them. If you were talking about Democracy over the dinner table, you probably didn't have to worry about the cost of food on that table. This is a 40 year trend: We were champions of globalization in the 90s. The promise was that the communities were badly affected - Midwest - would be made whole in other ways, trained for other jobs, none of that really happened. People felt burned by that." It takes a 'genius' within the party to realize after 40 years that globalism isn't popular among Americans.