"Crowley was a down-the-line liberal" -- what kind of nonsense is this? No he wasn't. He worked for Citigroup. Nice smart guy, but in favor of corporate concentration.https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/ocasio-cortez-just-did-democrats-a-big-favor/2018/06/27/dafdc498-7a4c-11e8-aeee-4d04c8ac6158_story.html?utm_term=.a19f06a7526f …
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Crowley isn’t liberal. He was a leader of the New Dems. He was not a member of the progressive caucus. The meaning of the election isn’t obvious but Crowley isn’t a liberal by his own choice of caucus.
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I agree. New Dems same as old DLC which Al From started & Clinton & Gore profited from. Obama also said he was a New Dem.
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The New Democrats are a movement started in the 1980s explicitly to get away from liberalism.
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No, though I would say the whole party has moved to the left and the differences among the three are dwarfed by voters’ overriding concern this year, which is stopping Trump. If/when Dems regain power, those differences will emerge again.
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Well if the differences are soon to re-emerge, then it's hugely important which folks from which elements of the party get elected now, right? Because they'll emerge later on one side or the other
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What’s hugely important is stopping Trump.
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That's another either/or that doesn't have to be one. People can do two things at once. In fact, while AOC was running to take out Crowley, she traveled to Texas to protest Trump's kidnappings. Then she came back and took out Crowley.
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I appreciated Dana's point that there's a generational and demographic shift within an absurdly structured party. I'm also a bit skeptical of the ideological coherence of the newfound left. But there are real bitter tension in the Democratic party over corporate power.
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We saw this with the Tom Perez vs Keith Ellison spat, and it is latent all over the place. It's Wilson's New Freedom vs Teddy Roosevelt's New Nationalism.
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