Reich writes: "In keeping with the tacit agenda of the New York Times, this piece makes it seem as if the progressive surge in the Democratic Party is a major problem for Democrats."
Former Clinton labor secretary Robert Reich. (photo: Steve Russell/Toronto Star)
27 August 16
n keeping with the tacit agenda of the New York Times, this piece makes it seem as if the progressive surge in the Democratic Party is a major problem for Democrats. It reports that “Democrats are mired in their own struggle, as they try to identify future stars who can appeal to a base increasingly insistent on a progressive agenda.” And then quotes a Washington political analyst saying “Democrats are going to have their own Tea Party moment in 2018. I don’t think they are going to put up with the party dictating who their candidates are.”
The piece concludes by saying “the issue was highlighted this year, when Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont found considerable success by running against the sort of incremental liberalism of President Obama and Mrs. Clinton.”
In reality, the progressive surge the Times refers to – which includes a majority of politically-active young people – isn’t a problem for the Democratic Party. If the Democrats are to have a future at all, it’s the Party’s potential lifeblood.
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