Dems

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue May 4 07:31:15 PDT 1999


Brad De Long wrote:


>They are the same question: the second is a consequence of the first. If
>McGovern or McGovernite candidates had won national elections, there would
>have been no significant desire to make sure that they didn't win
>primaries...

A principled party would take a loss in the short term in the hope of building a majority over the long term. But the Dems aren't a principled party.

Doug



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