(opinion?) A Clinton-era Democrat explains why it’s time to give democratic soci - Polidicks

(opinion?) A Clinton-era Democrat explains why it’s time to give democratic soci

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nice short title length. https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/3/4/18246381/democrats-clinton-sanders-left-brad-delong The rise of the Democratic left, personified by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), has raised a serious question: Should Democrats lean away from market-friendly stances and get comfortable with big government again? Should they embrace an ambitious 2020 candidate like Sanders and policies like the Green New Deal, or stick with incrementalists like former Vice President Joe Biden and more market-oriented ideas like Obamacare? One of the most interesting takes I’ve seen on this debate came from Brad DeLong, an economist at the University of California-Berkeley. DeLong, who served as deputy assistant secretary of the Treasury for economic policy in the Clinton administration, who is one of the market-friendly, “neoliberal” Democrats who have dominated the party for the last 20 years. The term he uses for himself is “Rubin Democrat” — referring to followers of finance industry-friendly Clinton Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin. Yet DeLong believes that the time of people like him running the Democratic Party has passed. “The baton rightly passes to our colleagues on our left,” DeLong wrote. “We are still here, but it is not our time to lead.

This feels almost like revisionist history. Am I wrong, or were Republicans never willing to cross the aisle and work with Democracts even if they were basically politically identical? There's so many weird assertions in this article, it feels like sowing the seeds of framing neoliberals as underdogs, and having us longing for the days when the left and the right shook hands and then committed human rights violations together while smiling to a camera.

There was a point where republicans were willing to cross the aisle and work with democrats but they haven't really existed since HW Bush and Newt Gingrich were relevant.

Newt Gingrich really spelled the end of bipartisan workmanship. If there is someone to really hate, its Gingrich.

to be fair, any republican speaker was going to do it after retaking the house for the first time in 30 years.

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