Dems

Brad De Long delong at econ.Berkeley.EDU
Mon May 3 09:02:30 PDT 1999



>...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



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