As Democrats wonder what their party stands for, here is a way to reach more Americans, says Village Voice columnist Nat Hentoff in this week’s paper online.

“While assaults on the independence of the federal judiciary are becoming more fiery on both sides of the aisle in Congress, the media have ignored the most important article in many years on an ever graver danger to the Bill of Rights and the Fourteenth Amendment’s guarantees of ‘due process of law’ and ‘the equal protection of the laws,’ ” Hentoff says.

Also ignoring this siren-like warning (issued in the cover story of the April 17 New York Times Magazine by George Washington University law professor Jeffrey Rosen) is, as of this writing, the flailing Democratic leadership in Congress.

“If the leaders wake up, they can finally energize and focus the party,” Hentoff says.

Sorry Charlie, er, Mr. Hentoff and Mr. Rosen. Dream on.

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