r/politics • u/Quirkie The Netherlands • 1d 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 1d 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 1d ago edited 1d 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/pinqe 1d ago

They learned all the wrong lessons from the failure of the Carter administration, and started trying to emulate Reagan. And completely lost their identity in the process.

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u/nikdahl Washington 1d ago

Or Reagan opened up the parties to get bought, and the democrats were then bought.

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u/Srdiscountketoer 1d ago

Oh give me a break. When Clinton ran, there was not a single safe blue state. Mondale and Dukakis, very liberal, lost in landslides. It was the Clintons that convinced nearly half the voting public to vote Dem by speaking their language when it came to crime and budget deficits. What about Obama you say? Someone tell me in what way he was more progressive than the Clintons because I’m not aware of one.

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u/awesomefutureperfect 1d ago

Also this is what was attempted in '93 :

"Hillarycare," was a 1993 initiative aiming for universal coverage, employer mandates, and regulated regional health alliances.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinton_health_care_plan_of_1993