Dems

[Brad De Long]

>...the Dems, by siphoning
>off potentially radical energies and by muddling policy by apeing the Repugs
>are the greatest threat to progress.  At best, we might work to see the New
>Dems get trashed so that progressives can build a real oppositional party.
>Unfortunatively, the McGovernites tried this strategy and ultimately failed.
>...
>
>Michael Perelman

Now do we understand why the McGovernites failed so convincingly? If there
was ever a time to build a truly social democratic party in the U.S., it
was during and in the immediate aftermath of Nixon...

Brad DeLong