>What an encouraging comparison! That was the period when the Republicans
>did probably their greatest upsurge of organizing, building institutions
>like Young Americans for Freedom and other "New Right" groups that laid the
>groundwork for taking over the Republican Party completely and shifting
>national politics signficantly to the Right.
I'm coming around to Nathan's argument that "progressives" should run in Dem primaries and in general try to hijack the party, just as the right did with the Republicans. What's to lose? The Greens seem more & more like a doomed fantasy.
Doug