… What are the lessons we should take from the 1992 Clinton campaign and his time in government if we want to help all factions contribute to rebuilding the national Democratic Party?
First, you must keep listening to working people and know how difficult it is to stay on course. You will be warned off “class warfare” and urged to offer “ladders of opportunity” to chip away at the country’s systemic inequalities. But building a politics around the latter is not the best way to achieve those changes. Nor does it elect Democrats.
We have learned that Democrats have to offer an expansive plan for government that addresses the fundamental problems facing working people and the country. CONTINUED
Stanley B. Greenberg, American Prospect
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