Pass the Hot Sauce and the Torch: The Democratic Party’s Reckoning at the Fish Fry

If Democrats want to win, they need more than policy—they need fire, fight, and a full-court press starting now.

You can smell it in the South Carolina air—equal parts fried fish, rising heat, and something else too rare in the Democratic Party these days: urgency. At Rep. Jim Clyburn’s famed fish fry, two Demo…