An outgoing Democratic Congressman just lashed out at his own party. 

Apparently, U.S. Rep. Dean Phillips (D-MN) is not happy with the direction that the party is going. In fact, he made it clear, in a recent interview, that he opposes it.

The interview was with Politico, and it can be read in its entirety here.

Phillips, you may remember, is the man who briefly launched a presidential bid, back before President Joe Biden was forced to withdraw his reelection bid by Democratic Party leadership.

"Totally devoid of leadership"

If you have been following politics closely in recent years, then a big question has been who exactly is running the Democratic Party. Following the 2024 presidential election, the answer is more unclear than ever, and this is one of Phillips' chief criticisms of the party.

He said:

A party that consists of multiple silos and campaign committees and outside groups cannot strategically do its job, and that means leadership. Right now, we are totally devoid of leadership. We are rudderless.

Ordinarily, it would be the president who would be considered the party leader. There is no doubt, for example, that incoming President Donald Trump is the leader of the Republicans. With Biden, however, it has been a different story.

Not only is it clear that Biden is not the party leader, it is pretty clear that Vice President Kamala Harris is not the leader either.

But, this is not the Democrats' only problem, according to Phillips.

A surprising reversal

Phillips, like many other longtime Democrats, went on to also take issue with the fact that the party appears to have moved away from its core beliefs.  But, this is only half of the story.

The other half of the story is that it is actually Trump and the Republicans who have taken up the slack, accepting into the Republican Party people that the Democrats have left behind.

Phillips said:

I think it’s ironic that the Republican Party is now representing America’s working class. It’s astounding, and that was ceded to them by people that have prioritized things like tenure over talent, identity politics over pragmatic problem solving.

The big question, now, for the Democrats is how exactly they are going to proceed.

At the moment, it would appear that not even the Democrats know the answer to this. A clear power struggle is taking place between the more radical faction and the less radical faction of the party. A winner has yet to emerge.