This Rural Congresswoman Thinks Democrats Have Lost Their Minds. She Has a Point.

"In July, Representative Marie Gluesenkamp Perez of Washington proposed an amendment to a bill, calling for an inquiry into what she described as a "plague in this country of headlight brightness."

...A Democrat, she was gesturing to the central point of her political project, which has remained obscure to many political observers, even as her profile has risen sharply in the past year. She implored people in the room to show that they were "living in the same reality" as regular people, and suggested that paying attention to the sense of helplessness or the anger caused by small issues like the proliferation of absurdly bright headlights offered a path to a more profound and potentially radical new style of Democratic politics. "He who is faithful in a small thing," she quoted from the Gospel of Luke, "is faithful in a great thing also.""