Eight months after their devastating loss to Donald Trump, Democrats have finally decided to coalesce around a core message to strengthen their position as they head into the 2018 midterms. They are focusing squarely on so-called kitchen table issues: jobs, wages, and the price of everyday needs. They are also approaching these issues through a new, systemic framework: The “Better Deal” agenda that they rolled out on Monday acknowledges that the economy is skewed in favor of big corporations and against workers. It promises to increase pay, which has been stagnant for decades, and full-time employment.

But there is a glaring contradiction at the agenda’s heart, one that shows that Democrats still haven’t learned how to address the profound problems that plague our economy: They’re still too quick to blame workers themselves for their own economic plight.

The Better Deal is deeply interested in the fairness, or lack thereof, of today’s economy. “There used to be a basic bargain in this country that if you worked hard and played by the rules, you could own a home, afford a car, put your kids through college, and take a modest vacation every year while putting enough away for a comfortable retirement,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer wrote in a New York Times op-ed, arguing that special interests have been allowed to rewrite those rules in their own favor. And, he noted, “[F]or far too long, government has gone along, tilting the economic playing field in favor of the wealthy and powerful.”

In her own version of this argument in The Washington Post, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi declared that Americans are struggling in “a rigged economy and a system stacked against them.”

While Democrats have accurately diagnosed one of the diseases hurting the current economy, their cure is much less astute.

They put the blame in the right place: shoddy antitrust regulation that has allowed for immense concentration and a decline in competition. The plan promises to “crack down on monopolies and the concentration of economic power”—bringing back a concept, monopoly power, that has all but disappeared from political conversation. In the current regulatory regime, Schumer wrote, “our system favors short-term gains for shareholders instead of long-term benefits for workers.”