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Hortensis

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8. Right. The "center" of the Democratic Party now and in 2008

Reply to LiberalFighter (Reply #1)

Thu May 21, 2020, 03:54 PM

May 2020

is and was solidly liberal. "Center" of the liberal range. Not some phony lying "center" place somewhere between liberal and conservative.

Notably, this graph is for back in 2008; most of those Republican senators who were relatively moderate then have since moved hard right. And most of the Democrats trying to work with them before that in hopes of forming a majority that could enact financial reform and stave off collapse had to give up in the face of implacable enmity and runaway corruption.

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