Sometimes it feels like we Dems are so obsessed with avoiding another McGovern that we blind ourselves to the risk of another Adlai or Dukakis - technocratic neoliberals beloved by the elite but not the general public.
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Yes, this is part of the story - when Carter, Dukakis and Gore lost, the post-election spin labelled them as crazy left progressives. Lieberman threw Gore under the bus! You saw a similar thing with Hillary.
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Who exactly in the 1988 field do you have in mind as being further left than Dukakis and more electable? Dukakis wasn’t Bernie Sanders but he was well to the left of the general electorate and his most prominent challenger from the left (Jackson) would not have done better
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I’m not talking about Carter specifically. I’m talking about Keynesianism and labor unions.
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