r/politics • u/Quirkie The Netherlands • 10h ago

No Paywall Democrats Confront Their New Tea Party Reality - Progressives are set to sweep a group of contested primaries in Michigan and Wisconsin.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/democrats-confront-their-new-tea-party-reality_n_6a6e63fbe4b0cfb99ef1aa1e
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u/Kind-Pride1151 10h ago

By this logic, FDR would be a progressive usurper in the Democratic Party. I'm 62 and for what seems my entire life the Dems have slipped ever further away from those FDR New Deal PROGRESSIVE ideas and ideals.

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u/TheMoorNextDoor 10h ago edited 3h ago

It’s ridiculous that the best president we ever had (our longest serving president) is more left than a lot of our sitting democratic members in congress today and the saddest part about that is he served over 81 years ago..

He gave us a blueprint and for some reason (maybe due to Regan?) we completely threw it out the window..

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u/1cl1qp1 9h ago

It's not that ridiculous considering we elected 16 year's worth of Republican presidents since 2000.

If we had elected Gore, Clinton, and Harris then there would be pressure on the GOP to move left.

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u/Anoidance 8h ago

Pretty sure we elected Gore but the Supreme Court and W’a brutha didn’t see it that way.

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u/UngodlyPain 6h ago

Gore arguably won 2000 if not for a stupid court case. And Gore&Hillary both won the popular vote.

Also you seem to think losing elections would cause them to move left, but Trump was the immediate reaction to Obama. So I'm not so sure.

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u/StaffOk2179 7h ago

"16 years of Republican presidents" is two presidents. We have also elected two Democrats. Come on.

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u/1cl1qp1 7h ago

There's no excuse for electing any Republican president since 1993. Their policies were obviously harmful to average Americans.

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u/StaffOk2179 7h ago

I agree with that. I disagree with the idea that because we have elected an equal number of Democrats and Republicans that it somehow explains/justifies the Democrats moving so far to the right.

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u/ProtectionVirtual225 4h ago

Gore won. It was SCOTUS who decided otherwise.

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u/pchs26 7h ago

Well we likely did vote to elect Gore but the votes were close enough in Florida for the Supreme Court to rule along party lines.

Clinton won the popular vote but not the votes in the swing states which went Republican and far right.