For me, the roots of illiberalism in the DNC go back to the Bush v. Gore 2000 Supreme Court decision, and the choice by Democratic leadership to just give up on fighting it.
It goes a bit further back than that. For as much hate as the Clinton’s get for shit that doesn’t matter, the real reason to despise them is because they helped popularize Third Way politics in America as an answer to temporarily relieve the relatively new gridlock we started to experience in the 90s in Congress.
Thirdway promoted compromising across the aisle with conservatives for policy that benefited both parties, allowing Democrats to claim victory via leaders initiative. In reality it just allowed conservatives to dictate exactly what policy they wanted to pass and reshape the democratic party in their image. When a party prioritizes compromise over all else, then you really don’t control anything.
It goes a bit further back than that. For as much hate as the Clinton’s get for shit that doesn’t matter, the real reason to despise them is because they helped popularize Third Way politics in America as an answer to temporarily relieve the relatively new gridlock we started to experience in the 90s in Congress.
Thirdway promoted compromising across the aisle with conservatives for policy that benefited both parties, allowing Democrats to claim victory via leaders initiative. In reality it just allowed conservatives to dictate exactly what policy they wanted to pass and reshape the democratic party in their image. When a party prioritizes compromise over all else, then you really don’t control anything.