Dems giving advice to Dems on policy are a dime a dozen these days. But what’s refreshing about former Boston mayor Marty Walsh’s message is that Dems don’t have an effective message because they’re not talking and listening enough to regular people, as the Globe reports.  

“They’re holding hearings and beating up people in hearings,” said Walsh, referring to pols in DC. “They should be out in the community talking to people, not town halls, they should be out like in coffee shops and other places talking to people.” …  I like the town hall part. Political ‘advocates’ and ‘activists,’ i.e. ideologues, love packing town halls. … That’s what Walsh is really saying: Stop talking so much to the politicized progressive base, as his comments on student loans, ‘woke stuff,’ and pronouns suggest.

Update — A reader emails that Walsh is on the right track about the need for Dems to talk more to average people. But the problem is that some Dems have trouble communicating to people outside their political orbit, the reader notes, pointing to this USA Today column on Tim Walz’s recent talk at Harvard. … I touched on similar Dem communication problems last month.