One of the least known candidates on the Democratic stage tonight, Rep. Tim Ryan of Ohio, is the one most attuned to the electoral needs of his party.

Ryan eloquently emphasized that Democrats will have trouble winning if they are seen as bi-coastal, elitist, and academic, rather than reconnecting with blue-collar workers in Middle America, both geographically and culturally. That’s one big reason they lost to Donald Trump in 2016. Huge swaths of would-be Democratic voters don’t have any patience with the identity politics and crazy-left nostrums advanced by fake-Indian Harvard professors and Vermonters who honeymooned in Soviet Russia.