[lbo-talk] Profiles In Spinelessness

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Thu May 29 09:40:08 PDT 2003


Nathan Newman wrote:


>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



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