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« edited: April 12, 2020, 10:48:54 PM by Anarcho-Statism »
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The Democratic Party has always been right-wing. Welfarism is center-right, centrist at best, and neoliberalism is on the right. That said, he was to the left of the conga line of New Democrats that followed. All Democratic candidates from 1988 to present are products of the rightward shift pushed by the DLC after Mondale's loss. To periodize:
THE BIG DEMOCOALITIONS
Jacksonian Democrats: 1828-1860
Factionalism between the Bourbon Democrats, Tammany Hall, and the Solid South plays out from the Civil War to the Populist merger in 1896.
Democratic-Populists: 1896-1908
William Jennings Bryan, who had united everyone on populist outrage and destroyed the Bourbon Democrats, loses one too many times. Enter...
Progressives: 1912-1920
Wilson was able to make progressivism cool to southerners. His big WWI screw-up leads to factionalism again. Progressives and the Solid South fight each other. Suddenly...
New Deal Coalition: 1932-1968
We all know the story. 1948 is the first sign for disaster, which comes in 1968. War between the Great Societiers, Progressives, and the Solid South. New primary rules confuse everyone and allow a few outsiders to win. Gary Hart and the Atari Democrats are the first sign of change. After Mondale loses big, the DLC is established in 1985. Behold...
New Democrats: 1988-Present
A schism between Neoliberals and Progressives has been apparent since 2016, but relatively muted since Biden became the clear frontrunner (and coronavirus happened).
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