2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: How can a brilliant political scientist like Rachel seem oblivious to the DLC? [View all]KelleyD
(277 posts)Have you followed the history of why Bill Clinton went for the "Triangulation" route. Because we could not win the White House...Duh! We had been beaten for 12 years by the Repubs and maybe were too ideological "too pure". We won back the White house (with a Repub Congress) but proved to the US that our polices could bring us out of Debt. Which BTW has been a pattern in the last few years that the Repubs put us in debt and the Dems come to the rescue and bring us back. No party can have it their way on all things. That is what Democracy is all about...Compromise. Do we want to be the Party of Obstruction that the Repubs have been the last 8 years or can we be the better party of leading our country out of the deadlock and work for the people.