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Dean's avatar

Excellent piece and an astute analysis. I've been saying it for a while now: the democrat party is who got trump elected. One wonders what would have come to pass if democracy were allowed to function and Sanders got the nod.

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John Smith's avatar

This is a fantastic article! I think that, though Bill Clinton was the lynchpin that sealed the Demoratic Party's fate, as you suggest, the seeds of this devolution started earlier and the milquetoast and treacherous Jimmy Carter deserves his fair share of blame. I think his election loss to what at the time was considered an exceptionally reactionary president in Ronald Reagan (ie the Reagan Revolution the "Reagan Democrats" and the heretical Christian Coaliton) echoes the other turning point that was Hillary's loss and Trump's win.

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