The Democrats need to go Maga.

Well, “blue Maga”, according to a progressive California congressman who has entered the battle for the soul of the beleaguered party.

Ro Khanna is a long way from a conventional politician.

He might be the representative for one of the country’s wealthiest districts, which is home to Silicon Valley, but he’s also a native Pennsylvanian who wants to revive blue-collar manufacturing.

An ally of Bernie Sanders, his Left-wing credentials are solid, but he believes his party has become entrapped by purity tests and turned too sanctimonious, lecturing and elitist.

And he thinks the solution to both his party and the country’s woes is another seeming contradiction: a Democrat version of Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again” movement, which he calls “blue Maga”.