What I believe

[Chan790]

110. You would be wrong.

Typically both move in the same direction at the same time...see Reaganism. The socially-leftward while fiscally-rightward movement of Clintonism, the DLC & its progeny and the Obama administration is the anomaly, not the norm.

In any case, I see a long-run Democratic dominance on the horizon and it's likely the only thing that ends it is to move out of the sweet spot. We're already verging on the right-end of the sweet spot economically and the tidal shifts in policy combined with the ongoing hard-jettison of the Democratic fiscal right in officeholders shows a party aware of that...it's a foregone conclusion that regardless what Democrat holds the WH in 2016, both the Congress and the Democratic caucus they have to work with will be more liberal than the current makeup on both economic and social issues.

For what it's worth, this is why as much as I don't want her to run I also don't believe Hillary will run; she has no interest in being dragged leftward on economic issues by her own party and base every step of her term in office. She'd have to see a major policy objective she could achieve to countenance that...and I believe Obama stole away the big Democratic policy objective that was hanging out there in healthcare reform. (Which was Clinton's personal crusading issue going back to her days as Arkansas First Lady.)