It’s not hard to see how Democrats could start winning elections again: adopt Bill Clinton's Democratic Centrist playbook. The Democrats won in 1992 on a simple mantra: “It’s the economy, stupid.” But they won Clinton a second term because they governed from the center. That means jettisoning for all time this absurdly racist, sexist obsession with DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion). When Bill Clinton rejected Sister Soulja—"If black people kill black people every day, why not have a week and kill white people?"—he signaled that he would appeal to the common-sense center of America, not the racialist fringe. That was 1992.
Bill Clinton secured the border, balanced the budget, and kept us out of stupid, disastrous wars of choice, though he blew his chance to kill Bin Laden. He also put 100,000 more cops on the street. He was sensible but not extreme on the environment and instituted genuine welfare reform.
Today’s progressive wing of the Democratic Party is socialistic and should be branded as such to distinguish it from the party's mainstream views. It does not believe in America, but it does believe in the confiscation of wealth, illegal immigration, cash bail, and the cancellation of mainstream American heroes. A Democratic Party that distinguished itself from its extreme fellow travelers and Trump’s tariff wars and isolationism could be a serious force in upcoming elections.
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