Neoliberalism, My Ass

[whatthehey]

34. Except you stress the wrong point, as the OP explains

Really it should be

The loudest, most obnoxious group of white liberal elitists (note the lack of quotation marks) have decided that they alone have the authority to decide who is and isn’t “progressive” based on the other person’s position on a pet issue.

As the article wisely says, purists refuse to give Obama credit for actual progress when he, in agreement with both economics and history, sees free trade as a better means to economic progress than protectionism. Clinton can never be a progressive either because she voted for a resolution that another politico abused despite her passionate on the record insistence on exhausting all other options before war. Kaine can never be progressive because he has a personal religious objection to abortion despite being fine with its legality. The list goes on and on. It doesn't matter what these people did to achieve real progress, only that they fail a specific blanket litmus test imposed by people who have never had to govern in a divided democracy where opponentrs have their own silly purist wing as well.