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    Progressive presidential hopefuls are scrambling to figure out how to ride the Democratic wave

    by Evan Halper, Los Angeles Times Nov 21, 2018 5 minutes

    WASHINGTON - Days after Democrats won back the House, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren stood confidently before Democratic activists and pitched a half-trillion-dollar plan - reminiscent of the New Deal - to build millions of homes in low-income neighborhoods.

    The expected 2020 presidential hopeful vowed to pay for it all with a new estate tax on America's wealthy families. "Who is government supposed to work for?" she asked. "Is it supposed to work for the 10,000 richest families or is it supposed to work for the rest of America? We are a democracy. There are a whole lot more of us than there are of them."

    There was just one hitch. Such costly progressive policy proposals were not the winning formula for most Democrats in the midterms. In the purple and red districts where

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