ANDOVER, Mass. – Congressman Seth Moulton is actively advising constituents in Massachusetts that Democrats in Washington are reacting “very poorly” to the party’s loss of the presidency to Donald Trump and doing nothing creative to regain lost political power.

He said the party’s rooted leadership is sitting back and carrying on as if Trump’s election was a fluke and doesn’t signal the need for change that responds to the loss of middle-class and blue collar support in the November election.

Moulton cited as evidence the recent re-election of Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi of California as the House minority leader by two- thirds of the Democrats. Moulton supported Ohio Congressman Tim Ryan for the top Democratic position in the House.

Entrenched party leaders, said Moulton, are “saying Democrats need to come together, and that’s a code word for just continuing to do the things the way things have been done, which clearly isn’t working. If we can’t figure out that after successive election losses, whatever we’re doing isn’t working, then we really need to have our heads examined.”

He made his remarks Tuesday during an appearance at the Andover Senior Center, the latest stop on a post-election tour of his suburban Boston district. At a meeting Sunday in the city of Peabody, he said fresh leadership and voices are needed to rebuild the Democratic Party’s influence outside of blue states like Massachusetts and California.

“Nancy Pelosi is not the future of the Democratic party,” Moulton told the Andover crowd.  “And that’s why I’ve been advocating for change; advocating for doing some introspection and asking what’s really gone wrong.  Why is the Democratic party clearly out of touch with voters in huge slots of our country?”

Moulton, at 38, is one of the youngest members of Congress and is seen as the next generation of Democratic leadership. He ran unopposed to his second term last month. He won the seat in 2014 by boldly challenging and defeating eight-time Congressman John Tierney in the Democratic primary in a district dominated by Democrats.

A decorated Marine officer who did four tours of duty in Iraq, including the 2003 invasion, Moulton said he has been disappointed with Trump’s cabinet appointments, and holds special concern about his yet to be announced selection for director of the Veterans Administration.

“He (Trump) said he wants to privatize the VA health care system,” said Moulton. “Veterans across the country are opposed to that. I hope he chooses someone with experience to run the VA” – and, he added, that does not include Sarah Palin or former Massachusetts U.S. Senator Scott Brown.

“This is a 400,000 person bureaucracy,” Moulton said. “It’s got to be run by someone who knows what they are doing.”