The Republican Party cannot blame the media's positive reaction to Vice President Kamala Harris for the downturn in their fortunes, wrote National Review executive editor Mark Antonio Wright. Rather, their problem begins with the fact that they "picked a bad candidate" to lead the ticket.The Nationa...
    • nifty@lemmy.world
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      26 days ago

      Platform wise some of them are republican as we know them now even if their circles are blue. I think Clinton and Carter are what we’d consider current democrats

      • chaogomu@lemmy.world
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        25 days ago

        Carter was pre-Reagan. This was before the neoliberals took over the Democratic Party.

        Clinton mostly accepted Republican framing of the economy, that taxes on the rich need to be low for… Reasons.

        The main argument of the neoliberals is that while conservatives are “right” about a bunch of their policies and shit, they’re just bad at running everything.

        Carter was before that shit. Back when we said that conservative policy was heartless and evil.

        Some in the Democratic Party are coming back to this simple idea.