[lbo-talk] Profiles In Spinelessness

[John K. Taber]

Doug Henwood wrote:
> 
> 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.

But can progressives follow the policy of "no enemies to
the left?" According to Lind this was an important element
of the Right's current ascendancy. (Maybe it was Brooks,
rather than Lind). 

--
John