Old Socialist contemplates…
The New Deal once defined The Democrats, until the political toxin of The Clintons and their epigones: the embrace of the Neo-Liberal Swindle, defined this party’s Neo-Reaganism. Mr. Leonhardt writes for the New York Times, and as such the very notion of placing the blame on ‘high-brow, progressive culture warriors’ is a political convenience.
As Leonhardt tells that story, he says the Democratic Party has made a politically risky leftward turn away from blue collar voters and toward high-brow, progressive culture warriors.
The evidence is clear of that Neo-Reaganism: Joe Biden and his Crime Bill, and Hillary Clinton’s political echo of the danger of ‘Preditors’.
The End of The Welfare State, here Researcher Scott Winship, via Politico’s Danny Vinik, answers in the affirmative, in 2016.
Did welfare reform work?
Researcher Scott Winship says yes. Twenty years after passage of Bill Clinton’s controversial anti-poverty law, his major new report challenges its critics—and says it even offers a way forward.
https://www.politico.com/agenda/story/2016/08/welfare-reform-scott-winship-poverty-000189/
What might a citizen think/ponder about the Crisis of Hunger and Homelessness that afflicts this nation? The destruction of The Welfare State was the project of both the Republicans and New Democrats. David Leonhardt present to The Reader the ‘straw-man’ of ‘‘high-brow, progressive culture warriors’ as a possible reason/explanation for the New Democrats argued fixation: ‘warns Democrats are not paying close enough attention to the average American’s concerns about crime, immigration and economic progress’
David Leonhardt can’t quite confront the fact of the failure of the whole of America’s Political Class, and the Journalists, Propagandists who produce self-serving, yet fictitious narratives, that advance careers.
Old Socialist
Note: In my haste to publish, I had forgotten to add to the Crimes of The New Democrats :
Gramm-Leach-Bliley as the end of Glass-Stegall. As Glass-Stegall:
The Glass-Steagall Act, part of the Banking Act of 1933, was a landmark banking legislation that separated Wall Street from Main Street by offering protection to people who entrust their savings to commercial banks. Millions of Americans lost their jobs in the Great Depression, and one in four lost their life savings after more than 4,000 U.S. banks shut down between 1929 and 1933, leaving depositors with nearly $400 million in losses. The Glass-Steagall Act prohibited bankers from using depositors’ money to pursue high-risk investments, but the act was effectively undercut by looser restrictions in the deregulatory environment of the 1980s and 1990s.
https://www.history.com/topics/great-depression/glass-steagall-act
Obama’s chicken-shit ‘lets put this all behind us’ , as a de facto pardon of Wall Street Crooks, heavy contributors to the Obama Campaign
Not to forget Obama’s Simpson-Boles ‘Austerity’ that was dead on arrival.
In Mr. Leonhardt quest to find these ‘‘high-brow, progressive culture warriors’ he can’t be referring to The Squad nor Bernie Sanders, as they all vote a straight New Democratic Party Line.
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