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In reply to the discussion: Ralph Nader: 'Cowering' Democrats face defeat [View all]Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)and think it was a mistake for them to ever nominate presidential candidates-they should have built more at the state and local level.
Wellstone and Kennedy NEVER won on anything in the Nineties, btw. They should have, but the always lost to the DLC. If they'd won on something, we'd have heard about it. The whole Dem agenda that decade was dictated from Little Rock. The poor, the workers, the powerless, the elderly, those who wanted peace...NONE of them mattered in the DLC era.
And we never needed to be that far to the right to win in '92 anyway. Clinton only took 43%. ANY Dem could have matched that. Even Harkin could have won if the party had got behind him. But we were essentially forced by our party leaders to check our dreams at the door in '92. And we got nothing at all for it.